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Early Modern Europe Issues and Interpretations

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ISBN-10: 0631228934

ISBN-13: 9780631228936

Edition: 2006 (Revised)

Authors: James B. Collins, Karen L. Taylor

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This text brings together work in the field of early modern European history. It provides an overview of current thinking on the period c.1500-1700, demonstrating that history is not a collection of static facts, but rather a dynamic process of interpretation.
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List price: $63.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 482
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.70" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Interpreting Early Modern Europe
Evolving Early Modern Identities
Introduction
The Legacy of Rome
Europe and the Atlantic Slave Systems
History, Myth and, Historical Identity
The Theresian School Reform of 1774
The Evil Empire? The Debate on Turkish Despotism in Eighteenth-Century French Political Culture
Changes in Religion and Cultural Life Introduction
Ira Dei super nos
Charitable Activities of Confraternities
The Sins of Belief: A Village Remedy for Hoof and Mouth Disease (1796)
"Dutiful Love and Natural Affection": Parent-Child Relationships in the Early Modern Netherlands
The Revolution of the Mind
Introduction
A Possible Support for Irreligion: The Sciences
The Material Culture of the Church and Incipient Consumerism
From a Culture of Science toward the Enlightenment
Contesting Possession: Patricia Seed
Ritual and Print Discipline and Invention: The Fete in France from the Middle Ages to the Revolution
The Roles of Women in Early Modern Society
Introduction
Political, Economic, and Legal Structures
Women before the Bench: Female Litigants in Early Modern Normandy
Review of The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800, by Lawrence Stone
Illegitimacy and Infanticide in Early Modern Russia
Public Leisure and the Rise of Salons
The Rise of the Modern State System
Introduction
The Crisis in Assumptions about Political Thinking
From Contractual Monarchy to Constitutionalism
Paradoxes of State Power
The Power of the King
The Royal Government, Guilds, and the Seamstresses of Paris, Normany, and Provence
Research Paradigms, Old and New
Introduction
The Courtization of the Warriors
Women on Top
The Contrasts
Transcending East-West Dichotomies: State and Culture Formation in Six Ostensibly Disparate Areas
Introduction to The Great Divergence. China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
Between Carnival and Lent
Index