Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond

This book offers a new perspective on the concept of modernity. Since its invention as a contrast to Antiquity or the Middle Ages, modernity has been tied to ideas of superiority, progress, and efficiency. As a counterpart to the Marxist “history of class struggle”, “modernization theories” have transformed modernity into an almost teleological concept of historical development...

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This book offers a new perspective on the concept of modernity. Since its invention as a contrast to Antiquity or the Middle Ages, modernity has been tied to ideas of superiority, progress, and efficiency. As a counterpart to the Marxist “history of class struggle”, “modernization theories” have transformed modernity into an almost teleological concept of historical development. These strong connotations obstruct a clear look at other forms of modernity.

The contributions of the volume will show in a comparative perspective how modernity can also be understood and analyzed as multiple responses of societies and polities to organize themselves in facing ever more complex and integrated interactions at ever larger scales.

Veronika Hyden-Hanscho is Research Associate at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. She holds the prestigious Elise-Richter Fellowship awarded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

Werner Stangl is a lecturer of Economic History at the University of Graz, Austria, and from September 2022 works at the EHESS-CNRS Paris. His m...

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Veronika Hyden-Hanscho is Research Associate at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. She holds the prestigious Elise-Richter Fellowship awarded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

Werner Stangl is a lecturer of Economic History at the University of Graz, Austria, and from September 2022 works at the EHESS-CNRS Paris. His main areas of research are colonial Spanish America, historical geography and digital humanities.

Concepts and Viewpoints in Early Modern Iberian Imperial History and the Globalization of Historiographies / Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla / 3-25
Art in Republics: Venice and the Netherlands / Michael North / 27-43
Watchtowers in the Eighteenth-Century Philippines: Material Representations of Colonial State Power / Eberhard Crailsheim / 45-69
Piracy and Local Alliances in an Empire of Archipelagoes / Elizabeth Montañez-Sanabria / 73-94
The Phoenix and the Eagle: Catalan Political Economy and the Habsburg Monarchy of Charles III/VI / William O’Reilly / 95-123
“When a Snake Is Cut into Pieces”: Austria’s Imperial Relations and the Downfall of Spain’s First Minister Ensenada in 1754 / Christoph Rosenmüller / 125-143
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Concepts and Viewpoints in Early Modern Iberian Imperial History and the Globalization of Historiographies / Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla / 3-25
Art in Republics: Venice and the Netherlands / Michael North / 27-43
Watchtowers in the Eighteenth-Century Philippines: Material Representations of Colonial State Power / Eberhard Crailsheim / 45-69
Piracy and Local Alliances in an Empire of Archipelagoes / Elizabeth Montañez-Sanabria / 73-94
The Phoenix and the Eagle: Catalan Political Economy and the Habsburg Monarchy of Charles III/VI / William O’Reilly / 95-123
“When a Snake Is Cut into Pieces”: Austria’s Imperial Relations and the Downfall of Spain’s First Minister Ensenada in 1754 / Christoph Rosenmüller / 125-143
Monopoly Claims and Moral Economy: Extralegal Practice in British Global and Local Trade c. 1660–1800 / Beverly Lemire / 145-170
Formation of State Institutions / 171-171Troublemakers in a State-Run Enterprise: Conflict Management and the Limits of Social Disciplining in the Königliches Lagerhaus Berlin, c. 1720–1760 / Jutta Wimmler / 173-196
All Roads Lead to Mexico? The Postal Network of Late Colonial New Spain as an Integrated Communication Space / Werner Stangl / 197-223
A Parable and Ancient Fables: Shaping the Governance of Mining Activities and the Silver Trade in Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth-Century New Spain / Claudia Jefferies / 225-243
Administration of Mining, Science, and Technology in Europe in the Age of American Silver (1550–1700) / Domenic Hofmann, Harald Kleinberger-Pierer, Peter Paul Marckhgott / 245-271
Glocal Economies / 273-273The Peso or the Marsilie—The Standard Currency Unit of the Armenian New Julfa Merchants? / Markus A. Denzel / 275-293
Foreign Merchants and the Introduction of New Hot Beverages in the Prince-Bishoprics of Münster and Paderborn During the Long Eighteenth Century / Benita Wister / 295-316
Lighter and Brighter: Indian Cottons in Brussels in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century / Veronika Hyden-Hanscho / 317-341
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