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Early modern European history is usually seen to span from the start of the 15th century, through the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries, until the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century.
The complex legacy of the Early Modern era in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe—a period of political change, movement of peoples and colonization, scientific and technological discovery, and artistic innovation—continues to shape the present day.
Our spirited sense of early modern history finds expression in a dedicated culture of teaching and research: a range of challenging undergraduate courses, a rich and exciting master’s programme, an eclectic and imaginative menu of research seminars, and several collaborative research projects.
This exciting course introduces you to the latest developments in the study of British, European and World History between c. 1450 and 1800. From the Reformation and Counter-Reformation to the Enlightenment, we look at how the world was transformed by the new encounters between civilisations.
Contents. Home World History. The emergence of modern Europe, 1500–1648. Economy and society. The 16th century was a period of vigorous economic expansion. This expansion in turn played a major role in the many other transformations—social, political, and cultural—of the early modern age.
The Journal of Early Modern History (JEMH), the official journal of the University of Minnesota's Center for Premodern Studies, is the first scholarly journal dedicated to the study of early modernity from this world-historical perspective, whether through explicitly comparative studies, or by the grouping of studies around a given thematic, chr...
This chapter examines the emergence of the idea of ‘early modern’ history during the 1960s and 1970s, and explains its origins, particularly in modernization theory and in the expansion of the university system at that period.
