Comparative early modernities, 1100-1800 / edited by David Porter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Porter, David, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Modern.

Comparative civilization.

Physical Description:

ix, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

Recent historical scholarship has shown the way toward a geographically capacious conception of the early modern world. Featuring essays by nine leading scholars of early modern Asia and Europe, Comparative Early Modernities casts aside the legacies of European exceptionalism to reveal the interconnected multiplicity of the early modern world and the variety of unexpected pathways linking these histories to the evolving modernities of the twenty-first century. In their fresh and provocative examinations of topics in literature, philosophy, art history, and political economy, the authors transform our understanding of global early modernity and reassess the theoretical and methodological premises of comparative historical studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

I. Globalizing early modernity

A war of worlds : becoming 'early modern' and the challenge of comparison / Ayesha Ramachandran

Eurasian literature / Walter Cohen

Asia-centered approaches to the history of the early modern world : a methodological romp / Luke Clossey

II. Comparative cultural history

Pornography, chastity, and 'early modernity' in China and England, 1500-1640 / Katherine Carlitz

Hiding in plane sight : accommodating incompatibilities in early visual modernity / Richard Vinograd

Divergence in cultural trajectories : the power of the traditional within the early modern / Jack Goldstone

III. Economics and states

Did China's late empire have an early modern era? / R. Bin Wong

Visualizing the state in early modern England and China / Martin Powers

Areas, networks, and the search for 'early modern' East Asia / Kenneth Pomeranz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230120891

023012089X

OCLC:

744287338