Comparative Early Modernities

1100-1800
Herausgegeben:Porter, D.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-12089-1
• 2012
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780230120891
• ISBN-10: 023012089X
• Artikelnr.: 33865482

Autorenporträt

DAVID PORTERAssociate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at theUniversity of Michigan, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

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