A Source Publication for the History of European Expansion

Itinerario ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-55
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
European Expansion ◽  
Full Support ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
History Of

Prof. Eberhard Schmitt (University of Bamberg, Germany) has initiated an ambitious project: the publication in German of a great number of documentary sources on early modern European Expansion. His proposal was made before an international scholarly committee in Bamberg on 6–8 Septermber, 1977, and received its full support. Concerning his project, Prof. Schmitt wrote the following article:Anyone who is even superficially informed about source publications concerning early modern history will quickly remark that publications are urgently needed about the history of the European Expansion. Especially in the German-speaking world is this need obvious. There are publications on various themes, as for instance the ‘Bauernkrieg’ or the Reformation, but very seldom do we find published sources on one of the most central developments of the history of the 15th–18th century, European expansion overseas and the reaction it caused on Europe itself.

From Long-Distance Trade to the Global Lives of Things: Writing the History of Early Modern Trade and Material Culture

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 526-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Gerritsen
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
Spatial Turn ◽  
European Expansion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Different Parts

Until quite recently, the field of early modern history largely focused on Europe. The overarching narrative of the early modern world began with the European “discoveries,” proceeded to European expansion overseas, and ended with an exploration of the factors that led to the “triumph of Europe.” When the Journal of Early Modern History was established in 1997, the centrality of Europe in the emergence of early modern forms of capitalism continued to be a widely held assumption. Much has changed in the last twenty years, including the recognition of the significance of consumption in different parts of the early modern world, the spatial turn, the emergence of global history, and the shift from the study of trade to the commodities themselves.

scholarly journals Review of The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th-Century Central Asia

Slovo ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fengfeng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
World History ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Global History ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

The Bukharan Crisis: AConnected History of 18th-Century Central Asia deconstructsthe context of Bukharan crisis in the eighteenth century referring to theorieson the global history and the connected history other than a myriad of previousassumptions which attribute the fall of the Bukhara Khanate to the isolationand decline of the early modern Central Asia. But through the lens of Scott C. Levi,Central Asia was neither isolated nor in decline, so he further addresses theBukharan crisis from several different perspectives. On the whole, this book comprisesfour chapters and it elaborates the real historical situation and the challengeBukhara faced in Central Asia’s early modern history around some thematicdiscussions on the image of Silk Road and the history of the Bukhara Khanate.Levi argues that Central Asia actually became more deeply integrated into theoutside world in multiple ways, and it’s far from isolated from the world history.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
History Of Collecting ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Renaissance

This chapter explores the material culture of everyday life in late-Renaissance Paris by setting L’Estoile’s diaries and after-death inventory against a sample of the inventories of thirty-nine of his colleagues. L’Estoile and his family lived embedded in the society of royal office-holders and negotiated their place in its hierarchy with mixed success. His home was cramped and his wardrobe rather shabby. The paintings he displayed in the reception rooms reveal his iconoclastic attitude to the visual, contrasting with the overwhelming number of Catholic devotional pictures displayed by his colleagues. Yet the collection he stored in his study and cabinet made him stand out in his milieu as a distinguished curieux. It deserves a place in the early modern history of collecting, as his example reveals that the civil wars might be a stimulus as much as a disruption to collecting in sixteenth-century France.

Early Modern History of Ottoman Bilād al-Šām

Arabica ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 399
Author(s):  
Thomas Philipp
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
History Of

The Geographies and Methodologies of Religion in the Journal of Early Modern History

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 545-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Clossey
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
Invasive Approach ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
History Of

Looking at historiography and methodology for the risks of Eurocentrism and presentism, this essay reflects on the study of the history of religion in the two decades of the Journal of Early Modern History’s life to date. It first counts the locations of the subjects of the Journal’s articles, both generally and specifically on religion, to measure patterns in geographical focus. Considering the language these articles use to describe religion, the essay then draws a contrast between treating religion on its own terms and adapting a more analytical, though invasive, approach. Andrew Gow’s emphasis on continuity between the medieval and the early-modern inspires a late-traditional perspective that avoids both eurocentrism and presentism.

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