Overview
- Provides a comprehensive review of the rapidly expanding theories of early modern state formation
- Includes in-depth discussions on how global trade, consumption and communication impacted on state formation
- Discusses alternative approaches on modernity, early modern states, institutions and agents of power
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History (PASTCGH)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Agents of Modernities
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Formation of State Institutions
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Glocal Economies
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Conclusion
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About this book
This book offers a new perspective on the concept of modernity. Since its invention as a contrast to Antiquity or the Middle Ages, modernity has been tied to ideas of superiority, progress, and efficiency. As a counterpart to the Marxist “history of class struggle”, “modernization theories” have transformed modernity into an almost teleological concept of historical development. These strong connotations obstruct a clear look at other forms of modernity.
The contributions of the volume will show in a comparative perspective how modernity can also be understood and analyzed as multiple responses of societies and polities to organize themselves in facing ever more complex and integrated interactions at ever larger scales.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Veronika Hyden-Hanscho is Research Associate at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. She holds the prestigious Elise-Richter Fellowship awarded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
Werner Stangl is a lecturer of Economic History at the University of Graz, Austria, and from September 2022 works for CNRS-CREDA, Ile de France, within the project ANR-TopUrbi at EHESS. His main areas of research are colonial Spanish America, historical geography and digital humanities.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond
Book Subtitle: Identities, Polities and Glocal Economies
Editors: Veronika Hyden-Hanscho, Werner Stangl
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8417-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-8416-7Published: 15 February 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-8419-8Published: 16 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-8417-4Published: 14 February 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-7965
Series E-ISSN: 2662-7973
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 359
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social History, Modern History, Globalization, International Economics