Comparative Early Modernities - 1100-1800

Informationen zum Autor DAVID PORTERAssociate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at theUniversity of Michigan, USA. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

List of contents

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

Product details

• Authors: David Porter, Porter David
• Assisted by: Porter (Editor), D Porter (Editor), D. Porter (Editor), David Porter (Editor), Jessica Porter (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.09.2012
• EAN: 9780230120891
• ISBN: 978-0-230-12089-1
• No. of pages: 287
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; B, Literature, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, The arts: general issues, Arts, world history, General & world history, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary theory, World Literature, Culture—Study and teaching, World History, Global and Transnational History, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Literature—Philosophy, Postcolonial/World Literature