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COMPARATIVE EARLY
MODERNITIES
1100-1800
Edited by David Porter
Palgrave
macmillanINTRODUCTION,
David Porter
aderity, i the term retains any cogency a al, woul! appear to
be incest. Beonomic meltdowns Europe and che United States
hnve revealed the profound vlnerbliesofsn increasingly byperepital-
{sr worl onder. Environmental ister in Japan andthe GelF of Mexico
aint dierepive climate ifs acrow the globe underscore the etaelysmic
anger attending » complacent owerzelince on inexpensive nontenew-
thle energy, Prot engalfing Chinete factories, European sets, and
Sy squares arom the Mid East convey the frarstion and dessie of
hove mnltudes seo he globe the emphant march of progress bat
‘they lef behind,
“The gobal rach of sch eres, ofthe steactul origins, ad ofthe
‘modi ecinalogc tha lend them ther sr of resiuble immediacy coo
‘bute to the appeirnce ofan accelerating hetoiel eoovergence AS 2
dobalzed woes becomes soaller and more tghdyinserconnested, the
Iiyjectorie mace by i component societies come to seem inreingy,
ln fetlsialy predetermined. The eleclogy of modern, fo Benet
te fr wort, binds the ers sands of lca and regional tories ever
‘are ihn a recognizable are, comsgning the inexhaustible diversity
ofthe paso 3 musty tolevance Ifthe pathy fr “traditional” r"devel-
oping! acess points ncseapahily toward a singube vison of the modern,
‘her init might sem litle need fr 3 backwadgance,
Increasingly, uch homogenising conception of modernity has
‘been challenged by thote who recognize degree of legitimate vari-
lity, not oaly amoag the historical trajectories of human com
‘munities, hue alo amsoag their value hierarchies and aspirations, We
seem inceesingly willing to acknostedge, for example, that societies
am be successful by economie and ocher measutes of well-being in
the abvence of a secular liberal deraocracc politcal sractore. And—————— —_
2 DAVID PORTER
yet. even # eapacions vision of mulkiple modernisies runs the risk of
rnonte presen iit focuses sarowly on the terminal endpoints of
Bacal poeeies. To atend only £0 the demonstrable diversity of,
Thodernties in che sbsence ofthe backward glance sc leave unquet=
‘oned the larger mactoparsdigm of historical coavergenee, not £0
ation the privileged satus of “Westen” moderaity a8 che standard
‘enchusatksguinst which all other aus appear at leser aleratives.
‘Whar is called for, and what an increasingly prominent strand of com-
yurtve historical scholarship has sooghe 0 prove fa tecent Yea
Bi penpecive chat complicates dis picture of modernization-as-
Convergence by aiserting the commensurabilty of seemingly diverse
fontext in the ecent premodern ast!
"The convergence paradigm present funne-shaped model of global
oderneation, where the preven 2 fore ae characteried byimeres-
hp inerconnectedness and homogenization, in contrast with 2 pat
tmarted by radical diferencts of varios esormourtable Kinds between
renera (lien peesented as in one deep-structural respect oF anothes,
roto-moders) and non-Werera ("uation societies. The notion of
ple modernitiesladably widens the tip ofthe fennel by insisting
tn the plorlty of viable configurations of an “advanced” present-day
sey, bar this notion in ie dos nhing to counter the sill widely
ae ssumption of fundamental incormmensunbility in the histories
ff the West and is others. Among the challenges posed by the present
“Toncat of global ee chat of recognizing that a mulpliciy of pasts
Te embedded i our current condos, snd that some ofthe most sent
‘owrces in coming to terms with ts coaunrems might well be found
beyond the puntively decisive boundaries ofthe Eoropean cultural ak
‘on, narowiy conceived
"To acre commensarbity oF historia contents otto aim.
‘har they ae che sane, bute, erally chav hey cam be nese nd
Inmagine and inorpete) together, and tat there it no gaping chasm of
‘nual akerity dha prevents them fom being productively compared
[Nusnced comparisons in ture, can enable us co recognize pattern,
pull, and imerconnectone that ay fandamencally reconfigure the
Jouder schema by which we understand movcrnity and history. To
fad eretively berwoen and acrom often abiary boundaries iin el
to lesen this hold on our categorical mapping, aod t0 inte a more
{aid and capacious concepion ofa ange of ulatltrsjectores pas and
peer
‘Sock, any event, the comsicion behind this volume and the con
rence se the Univenisy of Michigan shat inspired it.The Be sand was
inTRopverion 3
totende to provoke. Each offs dre pat represen 8 contested atenory
tnd potently» problematic one, but each alo has the virae of opening
‘ecome ever more prominent ar precondion of humaninie enquiry And
Jere nadsrike x comparison of tegion or societies or dixon a exc
“ube nine chaps in his volume ses out to d,s smplciiy bot to poss
Ndegce of (potentially Ukwory) Ssermal coherence to dhe endines being
‘corre an to rik eifjingappornt dierence int righ szucteres of
binary eseailism,
ch of de coreibutors to tis volame was invited think expic~
{ny sbous the methodological problems rased by 2 comparave approach,
Who benchmarks do we ke ss the tandardn our comparative analyse?
Hom do we eabish viable sandade of commensrairy ia choosing
nut to be compared? How do we evo dhe dangers of reed binaries
TB wing the always whizary bine ot dds objects of comparison?
CCormpartive salys na oeceary and even incapable too bat i an
Soto s profoundly misleading one tht can produce no end of mischiefin
the form of fse Knowledg, presi, and intellect complaceny. One
(Of the principal amp ofthis wolme i to provide = series of cae studies,
(Gort only exemplify rnge of cating-edge comparative approaches i
the bamaniio and soc seneet bu bo arscuste che methodologeal
‘soumpsions dat enderpin them.
"The eiegory of the “early modeen” hasbeen at leat a contested 2+
«as pertising posure in recon years comparison hasbeen a8 2 meth-
‘logy, When aplied oa lobal context, ican helps to foreground
Bisorkal eronences, interconnections, and paral developinenrs terest
emingly disarste cultural contents Numerous attribute of “exly
‘Rovers Euzopean history, once ten o exemplify the unique o exceP~
onal chaacer ofthat hieory, have more recently been reognized 9
‘nad chracteric of variety of (osty Eurasian and North Afsica)
ttcistes prior 1800. To examine soch phenomena seros variety of
‘Suter undersood as history consgtous can encourage the atea-
Tlton of more robse and eapacious categories of elcural avai. 1 my
Conerpion of wat a pariclar phenomenon is and why it emerges when
ftdoes i imied to the English or Wester Europes context and the
Itorialdeerainans internal to Lr the risk of eastaking@ 2a
romlypatiule and contingent account fora niversl one, To consider
‘hestme phenomenon in broader asscultral, horizontally etegrasve‘ DAVID PORTER
context yields ot only more supple conceptual categories bat ho deat
tiscinctons berreen the broadly generalizable and purely local aspects of
sthistrial end,
‘A the wae ime, the teleological overtones ofthe term “eely moder
iy” might vem c limit its usefulness when applied toa content chat
Aid not follow recognizable tjectory coward modemity over the sub-
sequent ceautie, What does t mean, after al, 0 refer to “euly moder~
i location —auch a8 China, fr example-where ie did no give
‘eat east in the short etn toa philosophical enlightenment, an ied
trial revoltion, a democratic pols, or othe caracenstialy “modern”
‘development? To inst on doing o may ental the projection of 2 cat
‘goey drives dec rom Earopean Rstory (or, mare acuratsy, from
2 conteasive and exceptionalst reading of European history long intent,
‘on emphasizing distiacivenes from tat of others onto potentially
Jncommensorable seeing, dereby seducing a wot of diferences to 50
many coy vacations on fimlar Western themes Such projections often
‘ental, moreover, a perverse corroboration ofa verdict of lack or flare
fn the part of non-European societies whose variants of “sey enode=
rity,” viewed ip 2 teleological light. appear co have remained only 21
‘anteaized promise, + hitorical dead end. Most of the chapters in &h
volume grapple expicity with this comundrem. Together, chey ake the
‘Conversation well beyond the question of whether oF not “esi moder
‘iy ina well eategary in comparative tudes examine fo what end
td by what means tight be most productively deployed *
‘Once we accept the potential productivay of ealy modeen” s a
‘he very lest» proviioal rubric im world history, st remsins only to
‘vablinh its Boundaries. Not surprisingly he pesodzation of the exly
‘modern proposed here ae sponning the teven centuries from 1100 c
1800 has ocesoned some good-bumosed skepticism both ffom medi-
cals resentful of che chronological incusion and scholars of the
[Rensieance jealose ofthe historical dininetvenes oftheir period. Our
sever-hunsre-yenr spn i amie intended sa the sic of pucksh
‘provocation, both eo rec the inewable aebarnes of every period
‘ng gesture, bu ao, more importantly te pois othe potential distor
‘ont implicit in more couventional definitions. The choice of 100 2s 2
srting pois i Lagely motivated by 2 desire to disrpe the Eurocentee
Teronsnces ofthe more typical date of 1492 or 1500. Ia his si-cited ey
"Beyond Eurocentism,” Latin American philoopber Ensue Dasil
‘ater the onset of modernity to 1492, Hit reminder thatthe modern
ge, in oh its geopolitical aspirations and ecenomic underpinnings,
‘vat alayyalzady global helpflly decenters the most provincial and
INTRODUCTION 5
atcisite versions of Eurocentriam.? Ar the sre time, however, the
Implicit asertion thie aodernity sore oly a by-product of te Age
of Discovery alo reifiess conception of woe history centered firmly on
Europe and driven by the paises! and economic exigencies that mot
‘ated is geogcaphical expansion. To take 2 the waivers benchmarks of
Tnodernity te sweeping consequences ofthis expansion is otelegate 0
the extra European + merely failitating role that, being at once inrin=
‘aly primal and forever belated, mus emai structaraly exterior to any
Iisoreal conception ofthe modern.
‘A second reson for the capacous dating of early modesty proposed
here isto acknowledge that exely moderitis canbe paral not ony nthe
synchronic snse—ar when we consider the simaitis berween China
ted Europe in the year 1700—but alo, with a nod to Jck Golizone
tn Jack Goody, n+ diachronic sete that akes account ofthe cyclical,
fate, in some sores, of the Sorts of ealeural efflorescence that We
‘ypc identity with sty modernity So, for example, we an observe
feature of the late Song dynaty Chna im dhe yar 1100 tha beac resem
‘ances to Chia inthe year 1600 as well sco ley a oughly the same
time. The narrowsess of more conventional periodiations potentially
sks obscuring sich broader patterns and eifying expectations of hisor=
falsingulaticy and tlelogial development. While sane ofthe chapters
that follow propane their own dating schemes, ehey all engage ith the
father pointed question thas such definitional exercies mse ase.
“The pesenollectonisdividedincothtee part Te in, “lobalzing
arly Modernity” offen = series of expansive, broad-gavged method
slog paradigms for extending the category ofthe “easly modern”
eso a tic lags set of contents than ha eypically been the cate
‘Ayers Ramachandran ses the tone fortis section by exploring how «
Single death of “the worl’ is configured across parte regions
inthe cay moder period and how, fusthermor, we might understand
it coherence as an caiy modern concep in spite of aparently disparate
lndersandings. Her clote analysis, informed by the history of cartog-
raphy, of a fms allegorical printing fom extlyseventench-ceatary
India opens out into productive eigue of paradigms ofealy mode
cer globalisation that stress processes of hybridization across contra
tive dichoromies n way that may bind us co large patterns of base
ommensrailiy
"Wale Cohen silly iss on rethinking the houndares hat have
traitonlly peecaded « more geographically capaious incerpretation of
cexiy modern cultural developmnents In arguing, through 2 wide-ranging
‘vcs int the genealogy oiterary gente snd motif, othe itasical6 AvID PORTER
coherence ofthe category of "Eurain Iteratore” he challenges what
‘ithe be consdeted the founding mythology of todern hterary sy,
tamely. that national uray tadtions should be sndertood fist and
foremodt a8 the suochihonoas expesion of local csleutal conditions
Prom sich a vantoge point, “carly modeenity” i cranaformed from =
posto of lative ole and el contained Terary efflorescence lim-
et the remote Wester regions of Bers the product oF chy
fmeertwined neowork of Feary tansmision and exchange spanning
‘som from Ion nia and Chinato Span, rane, and Eagland
Tm hin chapter on Asia-ceatered spproaches to early madera world
nico, Luke Clssey steps back from specific crosecultural mappings
flincay and vn cuare to enguize ito te methodological conde
fiom char preclade or enable a izle conception of early modern world
Ihiwory more generally. Balancing 4 commitment toa vision of history
situned tothe lived experience of is subjects with a insistence on an
“ppsopeate demographic wegiting ofits dominant marae, he ages
foe recentcting the history ofthe exly modern world squarely in Sout
[Ass and for looking to 1 varity of Asian editions forthe intellectual
‘Heourcesnecesary for he construed of ose-Buronormative historic
ponadigns
“The volume' second ection, "Comparative Caloral History” gathers
he chapters that mod explicitly comparative approaches to the cud
of litratute, art and philosophy 4 early modem Europe sud China
“atherne Cait pick up sce from the end of Waltec Coben's chapter
to foun on the ream of genes and seraaity 25st of commensurable
‘Su dtinenvely early myer developments China and England. The
‘Eploymene of teas of chastity in the service of both conduc iterate
Sin! pornography emerges in boc locations daring the sixteen and sev-
teen cents in she context ofan expanding publishing industry,
herening nal ery, atl the proifraton of ew luxury commode
fon How cxn an avarezes of sich pall within a macrohistorca)
[avae, Cater aks, infect ous undertanding of particular instances of
the ertie oF the sentient im erry and visual arifits rom Ming.
(China or Elirabetban England?
Richard Vinograd shares an interest ia broad cros-cultaal parallels
in this era, but shit the focus tm is chapter ftom quescons of con-
tore quenions of form, What ae the distinctive representational prac~
thos be ak, that mack peinsingsprodaced ia ealy modern China and
TEngizad a belong ro this persica historical moment? And what can
be learned fom #ssained compsrative analysis ofthe broader cultural
caning ofthese practices actos two such seemingly dsprate context?
mo hh
iTaopucTION
“The compatative method, his chapter semis as, ean be api a5 ait=
fly to the deep sracruce of representation 2 to its surfaces ad cam
Doteailly rove s much abou the aszheue and more brouly philo~
opis! disposition of an errs delight in artifice, say, of tlerance
For ambiquity or internal contracson-—s abot the diinetvenes of
productions
“ck Goldene is simile concerned, in is ehapes, with she com
parion of piilsopical diosions. His reading of the incleetoal
fivores of Europesn, Asaz, and Middle Eastern societies duving che
tiny modem period, howeres, provides a counterweight io the empha-
Sr oe puales and convergences im rose of the preceding chapter,
Responding to + concern thatthe pendula of comparative histor
rales may have swung too farsa ee dzection of wsimiative syntheses,
be offers forceful defense ofthe crcl disincivenes ofthe European
Enlydtcomene snd Sciemific Reeohton. is argument acknowledges
2 bane commensurablity inthe consinue attachment to elasieal tad
‘ons actos Eursian civilizations inthe early modern period, but ere
the slant serves 20 highlight the singulaty of Europesn itera
UP macked skepticism toward and often-deamatic repudiation of ancient
fearing over the seveuteen and eighteenth centuries
"The thie section, "Economies a States.” takes poll formations
and ade networks in Europe and Asia as central objets of comparative
Shatin Bin Wong begins sith review of recent comparaeschok
“Tah on parlelsia the economic hirory of pars of hee cw regions in
the exaly mer erat har spawned the curent interet in broader cul
tural comparisons. One ofthe recurrent challenge ising sch proces
Te argue isthe inescapabilty ofthe European benchmat, the tendency
‘reategoris detived fom the Eoropean experience co wind shap~
ng the question that comparative historians ask of other word regions
"Toh beyond thse categories, he sugges, will eguizeacknowleds-
fede posit thas cectain aks we associate with modeenity—lrpe
ttesponsored social wellae schemes, for example—emenged fit in
fon-Beropesn regions and only belatedly in Europe, leading ca gro-
traphieally more variegated geneslogy fr the modern py than has
teaiionally been entertained.
Martin Powers urns our ateation is his chapter om the pis of
‘ely modern saree tothe cometation oftheir authority in dhe image
tion of thee subecs. Visality, be argues, is 2 crite tothe maia~
tence of power ay dicousie, Faced with similar structural challenges
Sing fom prowing poliseal centralization, societies at both ends of
the Borahianlandeas evolved comparable statepes of sbsraction and® DAVID PORTER
‘soa representation for reconceivig relationships berween » populace
edits government. Fa fem being 2 wnigue product of Eoropea pitt
‘alhistry, then, the people” as moder plitcal concept and allegor
‘al nonus merges as necessary cesponse to more broadly shared se of
developmental conditions
Tithe final chaper ofthe collection, Kenneth Pomeranz runs
cal ee on the network node] of global interconnections dat underpins
{numberof current theories of ely modernity 3¢ 2 woeld historical
‘ategory. The general growth of taniborder networks was not consent
‘cre regions, far one thing, and for very few eepions did their sgnfi~
‘ance atch tha ofthe Alone word. Ar consequence che purpose of
[Seembling « world history foe te three cenoriee flowing 1492 msghe,
pisadoxiealy, ber be served by focusing les exclusively on connections
find more intensively on paral ad comparisons among largely separate
Soieties hat happened sso tobe pacpane ia everthickening global
neta
‘The unorailly capcious conception of historical engury modeled
bby thee chapter ir noe wathout detectors. Several weeks before the
conference was to take place, [recived liter fom 2 senior historian
‘who wat dappointed not o have been invited to partcpate. Referring
to che rover af speaker tht had boen posted on the conference website,
heveroee,
Dear David
nw this as the rection the conferee woul ke with pert
1B, Cyand D combined yee spina mectingo exes ides which
have been shoroughly refed and wi aks proper backgroud in
thei alae of Bsope But they wl db ay age that ail
Ince your desi to diate the Wo so Bow ofthe Chinese sedans
rout Michigen, Baiow me, Chew peope do espe emaiutd
Were men
Moxey
‘The vexation conveyed by my correspondent sugges that work ofthe
iin he Following pages, as friar as cere ofitspremises may Beto
some readers, continues to be rare in other qoarers at poring 5g
nificane challenge oa mare of deeply engrsined assumptions about the
eoper and righifl configurtions of word bisory. The esayscoleced
hce, however, suggest that the cutting edge ofthe convention hus by
‘now moved well Beyond this initia phate of challenge and confronation
peRopucTion °
tw articulate ia ineresngly complex ways novel approaches othe pret=
ingproblems ofcomparatvy,petodizstion, nd world bistory sgpested
by the notion of global eaty modernity. Taken together, they esablisha
promising methodological groundwerk fr frre explorations
"Most ofthe nine chapters share a concern with the general question
pote most direcly by Closey and Pomerans: aamly, im she later
formolaton, Ist possibieroconsract a worl history thats mere han
the sum of varios region histories” On the bass ofthe contributors
‘wosk, i sem clear that the answer i resounding "jes" The trickier
problem, of course, and che ane on wich there sppescs to be tome-
‘what less consenus, is how sos prodactively t go about it Given the
degree to which received notions of modernity and, by implication,
‘aly modernity, have been founded on the presmpion of rial snd
‘exemial ake, eeablishng not ony the eoevalnes but the fundamen=
tal commensurability of seemingly dspurste works most be a crucial
fin te. Coren parallels botscen, for example, Estope and Chita —
urbanization, increasing Iieracy rates, commercialzation-—have Tong
been recognized in our period. The contributor cal our atentin to &
wealth of futher analogies and smslitades to eavich our conception of
+ global ely modernity incarwoven by often-unexpected continuities,
parle, ad coovergences
"A paral list of such parallels taken ffom che following chapters
Inches several variation ona general theme of unsetied and confited
‘dynannan inthe reals of art and erature: the production of vernicu-
1s ftons by elite women, the accommodation of incompasbty and
(he daleciea! management of conflic and dference a fucination with
moment of foci bminaliy, and sm incensinglyexplice entiation
‘of moral Boundaries in response to their perceived erosion in time of
Aisrpeive social change. Within the beoade seve of intllecaal his
‘ory, we might point to such adleona shared features ofa plbal exty
‘modernity 2 widespread efforts to preserve and promulgate clasical,
‘ex, 4 desire vo comprchend the pricipl and totality of world order,
nda pointed ambivalence with respect to te individuals own postion
‘within this larger word.
‘longi his abundant elaboration of dimslitades, second method
‘logical move apparent ins namber ofthe chapters ic the Foregrounding
and theorization of webs, neeworks, dispersed rile effects ad other
forms of inerconnectenes, very broadly conceived. These extend well
beyond both the economic ligaments ofa trade-based world system and
significantly complicate more Gnlir rodeo inition or inacnce0 DAVID PORTER
[As Cohen points out, for example, semingly worsted leray produc
‘ons can be productively computed not simply as formally o themat-
tally congraent, but more compelinaly s consanguinary nodes on an
inzerconinenal amily tee Such model of comparative anal, which
are adiinile for being a once radically expansive and censpetly
rounded, lend increasing viability both to the category of Eurasian Lie
frature and to Coben's salutzy reminder thar hybrity i not so rmuch 3
‘inte to be stained atthe ordinary eeality of culture.
Tinlly, 2 romber of there pices counter the tantalizing allure ofan
Icagrced world hixary with a deeply tractor insistence on palyvo~
ality and multpiciy. We are potently contending afte ll, not only
‘with dizying multiplicity oftocal and segionl hore, bat ako with 3
‘mulipicty ofsnalyticl lenses and hinorcl vantage pois. Most readers
ofthis volume will have lng been sare ofthe danger of Eurocenteism.
(Cloniey addr welcome twist to familiar etgses by separating out geo
rapheal Eurocentssm from methodological Furonocmatvty and as
gus, provocatively whatan Asia noemaave history of te cary modern
‘work! might look ike
“One rising come oftaring the perspec bls this way is
‘hat Europe fora change, might appen noes these of rginary penal
tn the posordined welprins ofl hings modern, bt alo, ar Goldtone
fercfily poins out sche we of decency and lack, Coben note, or
‘comple, hut BoropeanInertre dislays an asonihing obvious to
the nfion of karmic rebirth while Wong reminds ws dat exiy modecn
[European pola history esa lacking in tations of soil spending
‘rod in ale- governed bureaericy andthe vitae of elacally eda
‘ted scholaroffca Norwihstanding the pained objecdons of any eral
‘correspondent such examples serv no o auch the parpose of defaion
1 reorientation in both ints of that ord Tey regi, Wag’ final
‘hapeer eloquently ogg hat we remain slays alere not only 10 the
_mleiplicny of moderines nor twenty. Se censary wood but ali €
the maitiple and offen widey divergent pathways by which these evolving
‘moderns have been and continue 9 be achieved
“The purpowe of this cllecn isnot to provide closure bue rather to
open up further comcation IFT may be indulged in an atempt 2 po
‘ioral coslasn, Howes I would suggest, tat the project oF cos-
structing a history of early modernity continses to ben fat, Both a wale
and an esental one, and second, that his project wil ecesariy incompo>
‘eal dee ofthe methodclagical approaches we ind om dla hee in
the exploration of sites and connections and maskphicies The ely
‘moder wold appear, though the lenses che conaibutors provider be 8
mvrropucrion ”
pace chancterzed at once by radical commensunbiliy n=rconneton,and
‘arian, Susaining a dynamic itrpay among thee complementary per-
‘spctves wil we can hope encourage i ere work something ofthe se
{pit of ative Ferment hat so broly anamates oo ely modern period.
Notes
1. The most esueny eked work inti wen inlae Joseph Petchey,
lxegave Hisory: Pals and Ttetconmectons in the aly
‘Mose Peo, 500-180," foumal ef Tash Sas 9 (1985) 37-58
‘nite Gander Frank, ReOtent” Cll Esnomy inthe dein Ae
(Gerksey: Unversty of Califa Pr, 1998) Victor Lice,
‘Sunge Pale South Ala Cla Cnet, ¢#O0-1890 (New
York! Cambidge Univesity Pets, 2003 Kenseth Pomerant, The
Grat Dieenes Ea Chin, ond the Mali of the Modem Wl
Envony (Pincion, Nf: Panceton Univer Pre, 2000), Sary
Subrabmanyam, Eup le Comedy: Pro he Tau tthe
{Gages (Oxted. Oxford Univers res, 2009) al Roy Bin Wor
Chin Tome stil Chang en te Lams of Ewen Expr
(hae, NY: Conall Usveaty Prony 977
2. Inehisrepec thy ae in lve convertion wth 2number athe eye
Called in Lyon Serves The Qing Forman in Hoe Hse Tn
(Camldge, MA: Bavard Unisersty Pres, 2008) an Jack Goody's
‘Renan Th One or Men (Cambie: Cambridge Univeity
Pres, 2010.
3. Barger Duel “Beyond Forces: the Werk-Sjtrs andthe
Timms of Moderiy” in The Chloe 9f bbztn, od. Fede
Jeno and Masao Myo (Durham, NC: Dake Univ Pras, 1998,
sa
4, See Jick Goody, Reiss al Jack Gldsoe, “Borecences and
Economic Growth in Work History Rethinking the Rise ofthe Went
andthe Indore! Revolution” Juma of Wd Hr 13.2 (2002:
sa,
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