Research Catalog

Title

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.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dixon, C. Scott
• Kümin, Beat A.

Description

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

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"--

Subjects

• Europe
• 1492-1789
• Historiography
• Europe > History > 1648-1789 > Historiography
• History
• History, Modern > Historiography
• Europe > History > 1492-1648 > Historiography

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 20-1422

ISBN

• 9781138799004
• 1138799009
• 9781138799011
• 1138799017

LCCN

2019017230

OCLC

1096481445

Title

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

Publisher

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

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1492-1789

Added Author

Dixon, C. Scott, editor.

Kümin, Beat A., editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Interpreting early modern Europe. London ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2019 9780429324574 (DLC) 2019019837

Research Call Number

JFE 20-1422