Encyclopedia of early modern history

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The 'Encyclopedia of Early Modern History' offers 400 years of early modern history in one work. Experts from all over the world have joined in a presentation of the scholarship on the great era between the mid-15th to the mid-19th centuries. The perspective is European. That does not mean, however, that the view on the rest of the world is blocked. On the contrary: the multifaceted interrelatedness of European and other cultures is scrutinized extensively.00The 'Encyclopedia of Early Modern History' addresses major historical questions:0- which ideas, inventions, and events changed people?s lives?0- in which ways did living conditions change?0- how do political, social, and economic developments interlock?0- which major cultural currents have begun to become apparent?0- how did historical interpretation of certain phenomena change?0The individual articles are connected to one another as in a web of red threads. The reader who follows the threads will keep coming upon new and unexpected contexts and links.