Comparative Early Modernities
1100-1800
Published on 14. September 2012
Book
Hardback
IX, 278 pages
978-0-230-12089-1 (ISBN)
Description
Featuring the cutting-edge interventions of nine leading scholars in Asia and Europe, this interdisciplinary volume showcases new comparative perspectives in the fields of literary, social, artistic, and economic history and re-examines the theoretical and methodological premises of comparative historical studies.
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Edition
2012 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
Illustrations
IX, 278 p.
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-12089-1 (9780230120891)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
DAVID PORTERAssociate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at theUniversity of Michigan, USA.
Content
Introduction ; David Porter 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 ; Luke Clossey 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 Cultural Trajectories: The Power of the Traditional within the Early Modern ; Jack Goldstone 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