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Nicola Lacey, "Mapping Modernities", Law and Critique Vol.V/2 (1994), 209-218: My paper was an extended review of Peter Wagner's book A Sociology of Modernity: Liberty and Discipline (Routledge 1993). The book gives an account of the development of modem societies through three distinctive stages of restricted, organised and extended modernity, and argues that the current developments towards 'postmodernity' are better understood as a further reinterpretation of the modern tradition itself. The argument is developed through the analysis of a wide range of social, political and economic institutions. My review gives a positive assessment of the book, and attempts to draw out the implications of its argument for law.

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