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2012 ◽  
Vol 117 (2) ◽  
pp. 645-645
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
American History ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
Early American History ◽  
Early American

Modernization on the Northern Fringe of Europe

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesa-Pekka Herva ◽  
Magdalena Naum ◽  
Jonas M. Nordin ◽  
Carl-Gösta Ojala
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
Northern Fringe

The Atlantic world looms large in discussions of how the modern world emerged, and what modernization was about; but there have been calls to engage with these topics from the perspective of ‘margins’. Covering large areas of Fennoscandia, the seventeenth-century Kingdom of Sweden represented a northern end of urban Europe, but also encompassed the mythical Lapland, homeland of the Sámi and of natural and supernatural wonders—a contested borderland between the European ‘western’ and Russian ‘eastern’ worlds. This northern fringe of early modern Europe saw dynamic arenas of interaction where new cultural forms were generated. These localized transformations and the transmutations of modernity are the subjects of this chapter. Studying early modern processes of modernization from the perspective of the northern peripheries can provide new insights and challenges, not only into the understanding of the early modern history of the Swedish kingdom, but into the general perception of these processes.

What is Early Modern History?: An Origin Story

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 560-572
Author(s):  
Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
Multiple Modernities ◽  
Origin Story

Abstract What Is Early Modern History?, a volume in the Polity Press “What Is History?” series, is an origin story of the ways historians and those in other fields have seen – and contested – the roots of the modern world and have seen – and contested – whether the period between 1450 and 1800 forms some sort of coherent whole. This essay explains the book’s conceptualization and organization into various subfields, including economic, social, intellectual, cultural, gender, Atlantic world, and environmental history, and responds to the other essays in this forum. The essay and the book discuss the marks of an emerging modernity that have been advanced in different subfields, and ways these have been questioned, nuanced, and rethought. No matter what aspect of life historians investigate, they are likely to see the roots of modernity there, or of multiple modernities, varied and contingent on culture and historical circumstances.

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.

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