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Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789. Covering European history from the invention of the printing press to the French Revolution, this accessible and engaging textbook offers an innovative account of the variety of people’s lives in the early modern period and the global context of European developments. Six central topics – individuals in ...
18 feb 2022 · xviii, 893 pages : 26 cm. "This fast-paced survey of Western civilization's transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that ...
Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789 . The second edition of this best-selling textbook is thoroughly updated to include expanded coverage of the late eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, and incorporates recent advances in gender history, global connections, and cul-tural analysis.
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3 nov 2014 · Abstract. This Handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to early modern Europe in a global context. It presents some account of the development of the subject during the past half-century, but primarily offers an integrated survey of present knowledge, together with some suggestions as to how the field is developing.
3 nov 2014 · Abstract. This chapter examines the emergence of the idea of ‘early modern’ history during the 1960s and 1970s, and explains its origins, particularly in modernization theory and in the expansion of the university system at that period.
early modern Europe as a historiographical concept appeared only in 1994. In the introduction to their handbook on early modern Europe, Thomas A. Brady Jr., Heiko A. Oberman, and James D. Tracy identified three main themes of European history from 1400 to 1600: the cycle of late medieval eco
Wiesner‐Hanks: CHAPTER ONE: EUROPE IN THE WORLD OF 1450. 1. Marco Polo’s description of the city on Kinsay (modern Hangchow), c. 1300. The Venetian merchant Marco Polo spent seventeen years at the court of Khublai Khan in China. When he returned to Europe, he dictated an account of his travels; many of his exploits are no doubt fanciful or ...
