Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond: Identities, Polities and Glocal Economies - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9811984190 ISBN 13 : 9789811984198

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Veronika Hyden-Hanscho is Research Associate at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. She holds the prestigious Elise-Richter Fellowship awarded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

Werner Stangl is a lecturer of Economic History at the University of Graz, Austria, and from September 2022 works for CNRS-CREDA, Ile de France, within the project ANR-TopUrbi at EHESS. His main areas of research are colonial Spanish America, historical geography and digital humanities.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9811984190
• ISBN 13: 9789811984198
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 396
• Éditeur: Hyden-Hanscho Veronika, Stangl Werner
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