The Historiography of Transition
Critical Phases in the Development of Modernity (1494-1973)| By: | Paolo Pombeni |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780367263881 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781317307174 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2016 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Defining a “historic transition” means understanding how the complex system of intellectual, social, and material structures formed that determined the transition from a certain “universe” to a “new universe,” where the old explanations were radically rethought. In this book, a group of historians with specializations ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries and across political, religious, and social fields, attempt a reinterpretation of “modernity” as the new “Axial Age.”