Interpreting early modern Europe / edited by C. Scott Dixon and Beat Kümin.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Format/Description:

Book
xi, 514 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Subjects:

Europe -- History -- 1492-1648 -- Historiography.
Europe -- History -- 1648-1789 -- Historiography.
History, Modern -- Historiography.
Historiography.
Europe.

Form/Genre:

History.

Summary:

"Interpreting Early Modern Europe is a comprehensive collection of essays on the historiography of the early modern period (circa 1450-1800). Supported by extensive bibliographies, primary materials, and appendices with extracts from key secondary debates, Interpreting Early Modern Europe provides a systematic exploration of how historians have shaped the study of the early modern past. It is essential reading for students of early modern history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Interpreting early modern Europe / C. Scott Dixon and Beat Kümin
Medieval and modern / Euan Cameron
Identities and encounters / Charles H. Parker
Gender and social structures / Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Renaissance / Edward Muir
Reformations / C. Scott Dixon
Media and communication / Mark Greengrass
Material cultures / Bruno Blondé and Wouter Ryckboch
The state / James Collins
War and the military revolution / Christopher Storrs
Expansion, space and people / Dagmar Freist
Commerce and industry / Maarten Prak
Science and reason / John Henry
Popular cultures and witchcraft / Kathryn Edwards
Political thought / Noah Dauber
Enlightenment struggles / Dorinda Outram
French revolution / Paul Hanson
Turns and perspectives / Beat Kümin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor:

Dixon, C. Scott, editor.
Kümin, Beat A., editor.

Other format:

Online version: Interpreting early modern Europe.

ISBN:

9781138799004
1138799009
9781138799011
1138799017
9780429324574
9781000497373
9781000487633
9781000492507

OCLC:

1096481445

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