Featuring the cutting-edge interventions of nine leading scholars in Asia andEurope, 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. INDICE: 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.
- ISBN: 978-0-230-12089-1
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 21/09/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido