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Minnesota Studies in Early Modern History New Series!
Studies in Comparative Early Modern History (discontinued)
Minnesota Studies in Early Modern History
The Minnesota Studies in Early Modern History series includes volumes often growing out of the CEMH [conference series]. These series continues the work of the earlier series Studies in Comparative Early Modern History by providing an outlet for current scholarship in the field of comparative early modern history.
Volumes
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Conversion to Christianity from Late Antiquity to the Modern Age: Considering the Process in Europe, Asia, and the AmericasThis volume brings a comparative approach to what, in recent years, has been a hotly debated topic within and across a number of academic disciplines: conversion to Christianity. These debates register the challenges inherent in attempting to understand a transformation that was at once personal and collective—a matter of inner conviction and outward conformity. The essays in this volume range from the late antique Middle East to medieval Western and Eastern Europe; from early modern Asia to the Americas and islands in the central Pacific. Collectively, the ten authors encourage consideration of the conversion phenomenon comparatively across time and space. Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Prince of Austurias Professor of History at Tufts University, frames the essays in a broader global perspective in light of the two other major world religions, Islam and Buddhism, in his Prologue, while John M. Headley, Distinguished University Professor, University of North Carolina, considers the various conversion processes and their broader impact within the cultural transformation of the societies involved, foreshadowing “the uncertain extension of the universal jurisdiction of humanity . . . to the peoples of the globe” that is one of the transformative processes of the 21st century. |
Editorial Board
Edward L. Farmer, Series Editor
University of Minnesota
Jerry H. Bentley
University of Hawaii
Thomas A. Brady
University of California, Berkeley
Luca Codignola
Università di Genova
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Oxford University
Tamar Herzog
Stanford University
Carla Phillips
University of Minnesota
William D. Phillips
University of Minnesota
Mansur Sefatgol
University of Tehran
James D. Tracy
University of Minnesota
Ann Waltner
University of Minnesota
Studies in Comparative Early Modern History
This series has been discontinued. See Minnesota Studies in Early Modern History for the more recent scholarship in the field.
Published by Cambridge University Press between 1990 and 2004, the Studies in Comparative Early Modern History Series was an outgrowth of the CEMH [conference series]. The five volumes of this series explore the topics of religion and state, empire and commerce, European expansion and encounters with non-European peoples, and the important, but overlooked role of city walls.
Books from this series are still available from Cambridge University Press. Order now.
Volumes
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The Rise of Merchant Empires: Long Distance Trade in the Early Modern World 1350-1750European dominance of the shipping lanes in the early modern period was a prelude to the great age of European imperial power in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet in the present age we can see that the pre-imperial age was in fact more an 'age of partnership' or an 'age of competition' when the West and Asia vied on even terms. The essays in this volume examine, on a global basis, the many different trading empires from the end of the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century. |
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The Political Economy of Merchant Empires: State Power and World Trade, 1350-1750The Political Economy of Merchant Empires focuses on why European concerns eventually achieved dominance in global trade in the period between 1450 and 1750, at the expense, especially in Asia, of well-organized and well-financed rivals. The volume is a companion to The Rise of Merchant Empires (1990), which dealt with changes in the growth and composition of long-distance trade during the same period. |
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Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting and Reflecting on the Encounters between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern EraThis volume brings together the work of twenty scholars who have tried to examine the nature of the encounter between Europeans and the other peoples of the world from roughly 1450 to 1800, the Early Modern era. This volume is world-wide in scope but is unified by the central underlying theme that implicit understandings influence every culture's ideas about itself and others. These understandings, however, are changed by experience in a constantly shifting process in which both sides participate, and that makes such encounters complex historical events and moments of discovery. |
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City Walls: The Urban Enceinte in Global PerspectiveThe essays presented in this volume describe a phenomenon so widespread in human time and space that its importance is easily overlooked. City walls shaped the history of warfare; the mobilization of manpower and resources needed to build them favored some kinds of polities over others; and their massive strength, appropriately ornamented, created a visual language of authority. Chapters by historians and art historians explore how separate traditions throughout the world illustrate universal themes of defensive strategy and the symbolism of power, each time embedded in a distinctive local context. |
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Religion and the Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West
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Editorial Board
Thomas A. Brady
University of Oregon
Edward L. Farmer
University of Minnesota
Cornell Fleischer
Washington University
Russell R. Menard
University of Minnesota
Geoffrey Parker
University of Illinois
Carla Rahn Phillips
University of Minnesota
William D. Phillips
University of Minnesota
James D. Tracy, Editor-in-Chief
University of Minnesota
Ming Studies Research Series
Research Series
The Ming Studies Research Series consists of scholarly works related to the study of Ming history. The Series is published by the History Department, University of Minnesota. Edward L. Farmer is editor of the series.
The editorial board consists of Edward L. Farmer, Romeyn Taylor, and Ann Waltner.
To order volumes in the Ming Studies Research Series, please fill out this form and mail it to CEMH Publications.
No. 1 | A Synchronic Chinese-Western Calendar 1341-1661 A. D.Keith Hazelton
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No. 2 | Ming Studies in Japan 1961-1981: A Classified BibliographyRichard T. Wang
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No. 3 | Ming History: An Introductory Guide to ResearchEdward L. Farmer, Romeyn Taylor, and Ann Waltner
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No. 4  | Long Live the Emperor! Uses of the Ming Founder across Six Centuries of East Asian HistoryEd. Sarah Schneewind (ISBN 978-0-9800639-0-5) 2008, 508 pages. Price: US $80.00
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No. 5  | Local Administration in Ming China: The Changing Roles of Magistrates, Prefects, and Provincial OfficialsThomas G. Nimick (ISBN 978-0-9800639-1-2) 2008, (US$ 65.00)
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