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  • Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany

    Microhistories of Mobility, Materiality, and Belonging

    Edited by Renate Dürr, Philip Hahn, Anne Sophie Overkamp, Christina Brauner ...
    Series Book 30 - Studies in German History
    Global history has come of age but has had little impact on the historiography of early modern Germany. This volume seeks to bring a global perspective to the history of Central Europe by addressing understudied global and colonial entanglements. Exploring the impact of these interactions on court life and home towns, labor migration, material culture, and religious communities, the microhistories ... Read more

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  • Memory in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800

    by Judith Pollmann ...
    For early modern Europeans, the past was a measure of most things, good and bad. For that reason it was also hotly contested, manipulated, and far too important to be left to historians alone. Memory in Early Modern Europe offers a lively and accessible introduction to the many ways in which Europeans engaged with the past and 'practised' memory in the three centuries between 1500 and 1800. From ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Porcelain

    A History from the Heart of Europe

    by Suzanne L. Marchand ...
    "This is the book on porcelain we have been waiting for. . . . A remarkable achievement."—Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesA sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the presentPorcelain was invented in medieval China—but its secret recipe was first reproduced in Europe by an alchemist in the employ of the Saxon king Augustus the Strong. ... Read more

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  • The Return of Hans Staden

    A Go-between in the Atlantic World

    by Eve M. Duffy, Alida C. Metcalf ...
    Hans Staden’s sixteenth-century account of shipwreck and captivity by the Tupinambá Indians of Brazil was an early modern bestseller. This retelling of the German sailor’s eyewitness account known as the True History shows both why it was so popular at the time and why it remains an important tool for understanding the opening of the Atlantic world.Eve M. Duffy and Alida C. Metcalf carefully ... Read more

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  • Reformation and Early Modern Europe

    A Guide to Research

    Edited by David M. Whitford ...
    Series series Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies
    Continuing the tradition of historiographic studies, this volume provides an update on research in Reformation and early modern Europe. Written by expert scholars in the field, these eighteen essays explore the fundamental points of Reformation and early modern history in religious studies, European regional studies, and social and cultural studies. Authors review the present state of research in ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Before Boas

    The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment

    by Han F. Vermeulen ...
    Series series Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
    The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues concerning anthropology’s academic origins to present a groundbreaking study that reveals how ethnography and ethnology originated during the eighteenth rather than the nineteenth century, developing parallel to ... Read more

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  • Chinese Sympathies

    Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe

    by Daniel Leonhard Purdy ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    Chinese Sympathies examines how Europeans—German-speaking writers and thinkers in particular—identified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polo's Travels**.** This sense of affinity expanded and deepened, Daniel Leonhard Purdy shows, as generations of Jesuit missionaries, baroque encyclopedists, Enlightenment moralists, and translators established ... Read more

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  • The Antechamber

    Toward a History of Waiting

    by Helmut Puff ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Helmut Puff invites readers to visit societies and spaces of the past through the lens of a particular temporal modality: waiting. From literature, memoirs, manuals, chronicles, visuals, and other documents, Puff presents a history of waiting anchored in antechambers—interior rooms designated and designed for people to linger.In early modern continental Western Europe, antechambers became standard ... Read more

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  • Empowering Interactions

    Political Cultures and the Emergence of the State in Europe 1300–1900

    by Wim Blockmans, Daniel Schläppi ...
    The emergence of the state in Europe is a topic that has engaged historians since the establishment of the discipline of history. Yet the primary focus of has nearly always been to take a top-down approach, whereby the formation and consolidation of public institutions is viewed as the outcome of activities by princes and other social elites. Yet, as the essays in this collection show, such an ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany

    Edited by Jared Poley, Daniel C. Ryan, David Warren Sabean, David M. Luebke ...
    Series Book 3 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    The Protestant and Catholic Reformations thrust the nature of conversion into the center of debate and politicking over religion as authorities and subjects imbued religious confession with novel meanings during the early modern era. The volume offers insights into the historicity of the very concept of “conversion.” One widely accepted modern notion of the phenomenon simply expresses ... Read more

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  • Hometown Religion

    Regimes of Coexistence in Early Modern Westphalia

    by David M. Luebke ...
    Series series Studies in Early Modern German History
    The pluralization of Christian religion was the defining fact of cultural life in sixteenth-century Europe. Everywhere they took root, ideas of evangelical reform disturbed the unity of religious observance on which political community was founded. By the third quarter of the sixteenth century, one or another form of Christianity had emerged as dominant in most territories of the Holy Roman Empire ... Read more

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  • Crime, Enlightenment, and Punishment

    Bureaucratic and Scientific Change in Habsburg Austria, 1750s–1820s

    by Stephan Sander-Faes ...
    This book studies the social consequences of bureaucratic and scientific change during the transition to modern states and societies in the Age of Enlightenment, as it explores how the Habsburg Empire deployed new ways and means to integrate existing structures into supra-regional systems of order.Exemplarily focused on Lower Austria, the book ties together the bustling imperial capital of Vienna ... Read more

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