Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond
Identities, Polities and Glocal Economies
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Beschreibung
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.
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
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Veronika Hyden-Hanscho
Themen in »Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond«
economic and social history modernization theories glocal developments conceptions of modernity consumption patterns comparative modernities global trade state institutions state representation state formation early modern globalization early modern period