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Comparative Early Modernities

Author : David Porter
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Early Modernities written by David Porter and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent historical scholarship has shown the way towards a geographically capacious conception of the early modern world. Featuring essays by nine leading scholars of early modern Asia and Europe, Comparative Early Modernities casts aside the legacies of European exceptionalism to reveal the interconnected multiplicity of the early modern world and of the variety of unexpected pathways linking these histories to the evolving modernities of the 21st century. In their fresh and provocative examinations of topics in literature, philosophy, art history, and political economy, the authors transform our understanding of global early modernity and reassess the theoretical and methodological premises of comparative historical studies.

Early Modernities

Author : Mary E. Berry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780877240075
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Early Modernities written by Mary E. Berry and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Writing China

Author : Peter J. Kitson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843844451
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Writing China written by Peter J. Kitson and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays on the cultural representations of the relationship between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, focusing on the Amherst diplomatic problem.

Hua Yan (1682-1756) and the Making of the Artist in Early Modern China

Author : Kristen L. Chiem
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004429468
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Hua Yan (1682-1756) and the Making of the Artist in Early Modern China written by Kristen L. Chiem and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hua Yan (1682-1756) and the Making of the Artist in Early Modern China explores the relationships between the artist, local society, and artistic practice during the Qing dynasty (1644–1911).

What is Early Modern History?

Author : Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 150954058X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis What is Early Modern History? by : Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Download or read book What is Early Modern History? written by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Early Modern History? offers a concise guide to investigations of the era from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries and an entry-point to larger questions about how we divide and organize the past and how the discipline of history has evolved. Merry Wiesner-Hanks showcases the new research and innovative methods that have altered our understanding of this fascinating period. She examines various subfields and approaches in early modern history, and the marks of modernity that scholars have highlighted in these, from individualism to the Little Ice Age. Moving beyond Europe, she surveys the growth of the Atlantic World and global history, exploring key topics such as the Columbian Exchange, the slave trade, cultural interactions and blending, and the environment. She also considers popular and public representations of the early modern period, which are often how students – and others – first become curious. Elegantly written and passionately argued, What is Early Modern History? provides an essential invitation to the field for both students and scholars.

Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map

Author : Laura Hostetler
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004684786
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map by : Laura Hostetler

Download or read book Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map written by Laura Hostetler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Asia come to be represented on European World maps? When and how did Asian Countries adopt a continental system for understanding the world? How did countries with disparate mapping traditions come to share a basic understanding and vision of the globe? This series of essays organized into sections on Jesuit Circuits of Communication and Publication; Jesuit World Maps in Chinese; Reverberations of Matteo Ricci's Maps in East Asia; and Reflections on the Curation of Cartographic Knowledge, go a long way toward answering these questions about the shaping of our modern understandings of the world.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures

Author : Carlos Rojas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199383324
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures written by Carlos Rojas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over forty original essays, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures offers an in-depth engagement with the current analytical methodologies and critical practices that are shaping the field in the twenty-first century. Divided into three sections--Structure, Taxonomy, and Methodology--the volume carefully moves across approaches, genres, and forms to address a rich range topics that include popular culture in Late Qing China, Zhang Guangyu's Journey to the West in Cartoons, writings of Southeast Asian migrants in Taiwan, the Chinese Anglophone Novel, and depictions of HIV/AIDS in Chu T'ien-wen's Notes of a Desolate Man.

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750: Cultures and power

Author : Hamish M. Scott
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 019959726X
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750: Cultures and power written by Hamish M. Scott and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2015 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. Volume II engages with philosophy, science, art and architecture, music, and the Enlightenment, and examines the military and political developments within and beyond the boundaries of Europe.

Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond

Author : Veronika Hyden-Hanscho
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811984174
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)

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Book Synopsis Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond by : Veronika Hyden-Hanscho

Download or read book Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond written by Veronika Hyden-Hanscho and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new perspective on the concept of modernity. Since its invention as a contrast to Antiquity or the Middle Ages, modernity has been tied to ideas of superiority, progress, and efficiency. As a counterpart to the Marxist “history of class struggle”, “modernization theories” have transformed modernity into an almost teleological concept of historical development. These strong connotations obstruct a clear look at other forms of modernity. The contributions of the volume will show in a comparative perspective how modernity can also be understood and analyzed as multiple responses of societies and polities to organize themselves in facing ever more complex and integrated interactions at ever larger scales.

The Age of Silver

Author : Ning Ma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190606568
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Silver written by Ning Ma and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book advances a "horizontal" method of comparative literature and applies this approach to analyze the multiple emergences of early realism and novelistic modernity in Eastern and Western cultural spheres from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Naming this era of economic globalization the 'Age of Silver,' this study emphasizes the bullion flow from South America and Japan to China through international commerce, and argues that the resultant transcontinental monetary and commercial co-evolutions stimulated analogous socioeconomic shifts and emergent novelistic realisms in places such as China, Japan, Spain, and England. The main texts it addresses include The Plum in the Golden Vase (anonymous, China, late sixteenth century), Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes, Spain, 1605 and 1615), The Life of an Amorous Man (Ihara Saikaku, Japan, 1682), and Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe, England, 1719). These Eastern and Western narratives indicate from their own geographical vantage points commercial expansions' stimulation of social mobility and larger processes of cultural destabilization. Their realist tendencies are underlain with politically critical functions and connote "heteroglossic" national imaginaries. This horizontal argument realigns novelistic modernity with a multipolar global context and reestablishes commensurabilities between Eastern and Western literary histories. On a broader level, it challenges the unilateral equation between globalization and modernity with westernization, and foregrounds a polycentric mode of global early modernity for pluralizing the genealogy of 'world literature' and historical transcultural relations"

Comparative Print Culture

Author : Rasoul Aliakbari
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030368912
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Print Culture written by Rasoul Aliakbari and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on comparative literary studies, postcolonial book history, and multiple, literary, and alternative modernities, this collection approaches the study of alternative literary modernities from the perspective ofcomparative print culture. The term comparative print culture designates a wide range of scholarly practices that discover, examine, document, and/or historicize various printed materials and their reproduction, circulation, and uses across genres, languages, media, and technologies, all within a comparative orientation. This book explores alternative literary modernities mostly by highlighting the distinct ways in which literary and cultural print modernities outside Europe evince the repurposing of European systems and cultures of print and further deconstruct their perceived universality.

Rethinking Modernity

Author : Gurminder K. Bhambra
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031215370
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Modernity written by Gurminder K. Bhambra and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this influential book addresses how the experiences and claims of non-European ‘others’ have been rendered invisible to the standard narratives and analytical frameworks of sociological understandings of modernity. In challenging the dominant, Euro-centred accounts of the emergence and development of modernity, Bhambra puts forward an argument for ‘connected histories’ in the reconstruction of historical sociology at a global level. This updated version of the original, published in 2007, adds a new preface which explores key themes that Bhambra has further developed over the intervening years: specifically, how the rethinking of modernity enables us to reconstruct sociology and a call for a 'reparatory sociology' committed to the repair of the social sciences and the securing of global justice.

Mapping Gendered Routes and Spaces in the Early Modern World

Author : Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317100905
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Mapping Gendered Routes and Spaces in the Early Modern World written by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did gender figure in understandings of spatial realms, from the inner spaces of the body to the furthest reaches of the globe? How did women situate themselves in the early modern world, and how did they move through it, in both real and imaginary locations? How do new disciplinary and geographic connections shape the ways we think about the early modern world, and the role of women and men in it? These are the questions that guide this volume, which includes articles by a select group of scholars from many disciplines: Art History, Comparative Literature, English, German, History, Landscape Architecture, Music, and Women's Studies. Each essay reaches across fields, and several are written by interdisciplinary groups of authors. The essays also focus on many different places, including Rome, Amsterdam, London, and Paris, and on texts and images that crossed the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, or that portrayed real and imagined people who did. Many essays investigate topics key to the ’spatial turn’ in various disciplines, such as borders and their permeability, actual and metaphorical spatial crossings, travel and displacement, and the built environment.

China and the Writing of English Literary Modernity, 1690–1770

Author : Eun Kyung Min
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108390021
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book China and the Writing of English Literary Modernity, 1690–1770 written by Eun Kyung Min and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how a modern English literary identity was forged by its notions of other traditions and histories, in particular those of China. The theorizing and writing of English literary modernity took place in the midst of the famous quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns. Eun Kyung Min argues that this quarrel was in part a debate about the value of Chinese culture and that a complex cultural awareness of China shaped the development of a 'national' literature in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England by pushing to new limits questions of comparative cultural value and identity. Writers including Defoe, Addison, Goldsmith, and Percy wrote China into genres such as the novel, the periodical paper, the pseudo-letter in the newspaper, and anthologized collections of 'antique' English poetry, inventing new formal strategies to engage in this wide-ranging debate about what defined modern English identity.

Symptoms of an Unruly Age

Author : Rivi Handler-Spitz
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 029574197X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)

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Book Synopsis Symptoms of an Unruly Age by : Rivi Handler-Spitz

Download or read book Symptoms of an Unruly Age written by Rivi Handler-Spitz and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symptoms of an Unruly Age compares the writings of Li Zhi (1527–1602) and his late-Ming compatriots to texts composed by their European contemporaries, including Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Cervantes. Emphasizing aesthetic patterns that transcend national boundaries, Rivi Handler-Spitz explores these works as culturally distinct responses to similar social and economic tensions affecting early modern cultures on both ends of Eurasia. The paradoxes, ironies, and self-contradictions that pervade these works are symptomatic of the hypocrisy, social posturing, and counterfeiting that afflicted both Chinese and European societies at the turn of the seventeenth century. Symptoms of an Unruly Age shows us that these texts, produced thousands of miles away from one another, each constitute cultural manifestations of early modernity.

India in the Persian World of Letters

Author : Arthur Dudney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019285741X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book India in the Persian World of Letters written by Arthur Dudney and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book traces the development of philology (the study of literary language) in the Persian tradition in India, concentrating on its socio-political ramifications. The most influential Indo-Persian philologist of the eighteenth-century was Sirāj al-Dīn 'Alī Khān, (d. 1756), whose pen-name was Ārzū. Besides being a respected poet, Ārzū was a rigorous theoretician of language whose Intellectual legacy was side-lined by colonialism. His conception of language accounted for literary innovation and historical change in part to theorize the tāzah-go'ī [literally, fresh-speaking] movement in Persian literary culture. Although later scholarship has tended to frame this debate in anachronistically nationalist terms (Iranian native-speakers versus Indian imitators), the primary sources show that contemporary concerns had less to do with geography than with the question of how to assess innovative fresh-speaking poetry, a situation analogous to the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns in early modern Europe. Ārzū used historical reasoning to argue that as a cosmopolitan language Persian could not be the property of one nation or be subject to one narrow kind of interpretation. Ārzū also shaped attitudes about reokhtah, the Persianized form of vernacular poetry that would later be renamed and reconceptualized as Urdu, helping the vernacular to gain acceptance in elite literary circles in northern India. This study puts to rest the persistent misconception that Indians started writing the vernacular because they were ashamed of their poor grasp of Persian at the twilight of the Mughal Empire.

Delimiting Modernities

Author : Sven Trakulhun
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739199498
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Delimiting Modernities written by Sven Trakulhun and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection seeks to contribute to the many long-standing discussions on modernity, but also and more specifically to the more recent debates over trends to pluralize modernity. These debates are current in many different academic disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, literature and postcolonial studies. Hitherto, most engagements with modernity in the plural have remained conspicuously confined to one or other intra-disciplinary notion of modernities, such as that of Shmuel Eisenstadt’s “multiple modernities” which has triggered a host of conference papers and publications largely within sociology: all the while, it seems that the literatures, for instance, of multiple modernities and alternative modernities are each distinguished by the fact that one ignores the other. It is the principal aim of this edited volume to subject these disciplinary discussions to a more encompassing view, assembling contributions from different scholars who not only work in different disciplines and regional settings, but who also engage with their research topics in a variety of approaches and at different levels of analysis. The volume thus transcends the sometimes narrow boundaries of the debates over modernities within the established academic disciplines and seeks to turn the unavoidable friction brought about by this interdisciplinary setting into most original and insightful scholarship.