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Modernisation and Tradition
This anthology is based on a symposium which had as its key issue a critical discussion of different theories of modernisation from the perspective of people's activities in local manorial societies. Modernisation can be studied in terms of changing values, norms and social relationships. From a theoretical point of view the book makes use of the possibility to change main macro-conceptions of the modernisation process, using dichotomies such as feudal/capitalist and individual/collective, and it also tries to integrate tradition and continuity perspective.
Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Scholarly discussions on economic development in history, specifically those linked to industrialization or modern economic growth, have paid great attention to the formation and development of the market economy as a set of institutions able to augment people’s welfare. The role of specific nonmarket practices for promoting the economic development and welfare has been a distinct concern, typically involving discussion of the state’s economic policies. How have societies tackled those issues that the market did not? To...
Shocking Contrasts
How do plagues, blockades, and world-changing innovations change social and political institutions in some, but not all, societies?
Ordinary Prussians
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Neighbors and Enemies
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Classical Mechanics and Quantum Mechanics: An Historic-Axiomatic Approach
This unique textbook presents a novel, axiomatic pedagogical path from classical to quantum physics. Readers are introduced to the description of classical mechanics, which rests on Euler’s and Helmholtz’s rather than Newton’s or Hamilton’s representations. Special attention is given to the common attributes rather than to the differences between classical and quantum mechanics. Readers will also learn about Schrödinger’s forgotten demands on quantization, his equation, Einstein’s idea of ‘quantization as selection problem’. The Schrödinger equation is derived without any assumptions about the nature of quantum systems, such as interference and superposition, or the existen...
The Military in the Early Modern World
When looking at the early modern period (c. 1500–c. 1800), we often speak of "the military" or "the army". But what exactly do we mean when using these terms? The forms and structures of the armed forces have not only changed between 1500 and 1800, but also varied throughout different regions of the world and even within Europe. The contributors to this volume examine twelve early modern examples of armed forces in the Holy Roman Empire, Western and Eastern Europe, Eastern Asia and North America and paint a multifarious and even disparate picture during this period. The findings suggest that modern notions of the armed forces common in the early modern period should be used more prudently to avoid prevalent implications of non-existing continuity and uniformity.
Productive Men, Reproductive Women
The debate on the origins of modern gender norms continues unabated across the academic disciplines. This book adds an important and hitherto neglected dimension. Focusing on rural life and its values, the author argues that the modern ideal of separate spheres originated in the era of the Enlightenment. Prior to the eighteenth century, cultural norms prescribed active, interdependent economic roles for both women and men. Enlightenment economists transformed these gender paradigms as they postulated a market exchange system directed exclusively by men. By the early nineteenth century, the emerging bourgeois value system affirmed the new civil society and the market place as exclusively male...
The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 3, AD 1420-AD 1804
The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.
Bürgertum
Wir leben in einer Welt, die zutiefst geprägt ist durch die rechtlichen, ideellen, ökonomischen und kulturellen Traditionen und Parameter der »bürgerlichen Gesellschaft«. Diese trat seit dem 18. Jahrhundert sukzessive an die Stelle der feudal-ständischen Ordnung der Vormoderne, und hat auch die ideologischen Herausforderungen von rechts und links überdauert. Aber das öffentliche Bewusstsein über dieses grundlegende Fundament unserer politisch-sozialen Ordnung entspricht keineswegs seiner ungebrochenen Bedeutung. Der Band enthält den ersten vergleichenden Rückblick auf die drei großen Bürgertumsprojekte der 1980er Jahre, welche die historische Forschung seither nachhaltig beeinfl...
