Early Modern History and the Social Sciences

This collection of eleven essays furthers the dialogue between early modern history and the social sciences through an analysis of Fernand Braudel's The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World of Philip II. The contributors review various historiographical traditions to arrive at conclusions on contemporary theory and practice in the exchange between history and the disciplines of geography, economics, sociology, anthropology, politics (diplomatic history and the study of revolutions), psychology (law), religion, and area studies (China and the Americas).

Contributors

Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge

Jan de Vries, University of California, Berkeley

Mark Elvin, Australian National University, Canberra

Jack A. Goldstone, University of California, Davis

Antonio Manuel Hespanha, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Henry Kamen, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Institució

Milà i Fontanals, Barcelona

John A. Marino, University of California, San Diego

Ottavia Niccoli, Università degli Studi di Trento

Anthony Pagden, University of California, Los Angeles

M. J. Rodríguez-Salgado, London School of Economics

Bartolomé Yun Casalilla, Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla

“The breadth of coverage from so many disciplines, combined with the depth in history, make it unique.”—Helen Nader

Part 1—Reconstructing and Representing the Original Landscape

On the Shores of Bohemia: Recovering Geography.....John A. Marino

Part 2—Economic Theory and Practice in Early Modern History

City and Countryside in Spain: Changing Structures, Changing Relationships, 1450–1850 ....Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla

Great Expectations: Early Modern History and the Social Sciences....Jan de Vries

Part 3—Social and Cultural Matrices of Collective Destinies

Images of Society.....Ottavia Niccoli

Civilizations and Frontiers: Anthropology of the Early Modern Mediterranean.....Peter Burke

Part 4—Crises and Transformations: Politics and People

Dust and Ashes: The History of Politics and War.....M. J. Rodríguez-Salgado

The Longue Durée and Cycles of Revolt in European History.....Jack A. Goldstone

Part 5—Constructing Identities from Mentalité

Early Modern Law and the Anthropological Imagination of Old European Culture.....António Manuel Hespanha

Strategies of Survival: Minority Cultures in the Western Mediterranean..... Henry Kamen

Part 6—Worlds beyond the Mediterranean

Braudel and China.....Mark Elvin

Plus Ultra: America and the Changing European Notions of Time and Space.....Anthony Pagden