Encountering the global in early modern Germany : microhistories of mobility, materiality, and belonging
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 l...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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New York Oxford : Berghahn,
2025
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Studies in German history
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| Schlagworte: | HISTORY / Europe / Germany |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 348 Seiten) |
| Zusammenfassung: | 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 presented here reveal the myriad ways in which connections and disconnections underpinned early modern Germany. The authors engage with contemporary debates about global history in general, taking its lacunae as a cue for substantial methodological revisions Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Moving and Belonging -- Chapter 1. Their Last Days in Europe -- Chapter 2 Between Beutelsbach and Batavia -- Chapter 3 Encountering Opportunities -- Chapter 4 Between Slavery and Exoticism -- Part II Globality: The World of the Hometown -- Chapter 5. Bringing the World to German Home Towns -- Chapter 6 Two Inventories—Two Braunschweigs -- Chapter 7 Encountering the Middle East in Early Modern Germany -- Chapter 8 A Small Town in Germany and Its Global Dis:connections -- Chapter 9 Putting the Hanse on the Map -- Part III Materiality: Local Tastes for the Global -- Chapter 10. Global Goods, Familiar Strangers, and Some Local Knowledge of the World: A View from the German-Dutch Borderlands, ca. 1700 -- Chapter 11 Global Food in Southwestern Germany around 1770 -- Chapter 12 Reading Materials -- Chapter 13 Global Itineraries, Curative Effects, and Sacred Scents -- Chapter 14 Colonial Objects in the Cabinet of Curiosities? -- Part IV Going Beyond: Perspectives and Agendas -- Conclusion. German Global Microhistory, or -- Appendix 6.1 -- Appendix 6.2 -- Index |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 348 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9781805398745 1805398741 9781805398752 180539875X 9781805398738 1805398733 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9781805398752 |
| Zugangseinschränkungen: | Open Access |