{"product_id":"early-modern-europe-isbn-9780631228929","title":"Early Modern Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis reader brings together original and influential recent work in the field of early modern European history.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a thought-provoking overview of current thinking on this period.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eKey themes include evolving early-modern identities; changes in religion and cultural life; the revolution of the mind; roles of women in early-modern societies; the rise of the modern state; and Europe and the new world system\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncorporates new scholarship on Eastern and Central Europe.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes an article translated into English for the first time.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Acknowledments. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Interpreting Early Modern Europe: Karen L. Taylor and James B. Collins.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I Evolving Early Modern Identities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Legacy of Rome: Anthony Pagden.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Europe and the Atlantic Slave Systems: David Eltis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 History, Myth and, Historical Identity: Karin Friedrich.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Theresian School Reform of 1774: James Van Horn Melton.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Evil Empire? The Debate on Turkish Despotism in Eighteenth-Century French Political Culture: Thomas Kaiser.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II Changes in Religion and Cultural Life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Ira Dei super nos: Denis Crouzet.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Charitable Activities of Confraternities: Maureen Flynn.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Sins of Belief: A Village Remedy for Hoof and Mouth Disease (1796) David Warren Sabean.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 “Dutiful Love and Natural Affection”: Parent-Child Relationships in the Early Modern Netherlands: Sherrin Marshall.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III The Revolution of the Mind.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 A Possible Support for Irreligion: The Sciences: Lucien Febvre.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The Material Culture of the Church and Incipient Consumerism: Richard A. Goldthwaite.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 From a Culture of Science toward the Enlightenment: Kathleen Wellman.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Contesting Possession: Patricia Seed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Ritual and Print Discipline and Invention: The Fête in France from the Middle Ages to the Revolution: Roger Chartier.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart IV The Roles of Women in Early Modern Society Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Political, Economic, and Legal Structures: Merry E. Wiesner.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Women before the Bench: Female Litigants in Early Modern Normandy: Zoë A Schneider.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Review of The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800, by Lawrence Stone: Alan Macfarlane.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Illegitimacy and Infanticide in Early Modern Russia: David L Ransel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Public Leisure and the Rise of Salons: Deborah Hertz.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart V The Rise of the Modern State System.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 The Crisis in Assumptions about Political Thinking: Felix Gilbert.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 From Contractual Monarchy to Constitutionalism: Gerhard Oestrich.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Paradoxes of State Power: John Brewer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 The Power of the King: Antonio Feros Feros.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 The Royal Government, Guilds, and the Seamstresses of Paris, Normany, and Provence: Clare Haru Crowston.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart VI Research Paradigms, Old and New.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 The Courtization of the Warriors: Norbert Elias.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Women on Top: Natalie Zemon Davis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 The Contrasts: Alfred W. Crosby.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Transcending East-West Dichotomies: State and Culture Formation in Six Ostensibly Disparate Areas: Victor Lieberman.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Introduction to The Great Divergence. China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy: Kenneth Pomeranz.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Between Carnival and Lent: Paula Findlen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e \"Collin and Taylor's anthology... will be a valuable resource in teaching the historiography of the early modern era.\" \u003ci\u003eHistory\u003c!--end--\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Touches on a wide range of methodologies … .Offers … a broadening of horizons beyond any specialty. Much undiscovered territory … much inspiration.”\u003ci\u003e Sixteenth Century Journal\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eJames B. Collins\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at Georgetown University, and Chair of the History Department.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaren L. Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in History at Georgetown University.\u003c\/p\u003e  This collection brings together original and influential recent work in the field of early modern European history. It provides a thought-provoking overview of current thinking on this period, demonstrating that history is a dynamic process of interpretation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book is structured around six major themes: evolving early modern identities, treated within a global context; changes in religion and cultural life; the revolution of the mind; roles of women in early modern societies; the rise of the modern state; and research paradigms. 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