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Framing the World
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While discussions of inhabitability dominate the geographical literature throughout the sixteenth century, humanist geographers of the sixteenth century, trained in Greek and Roman writings, found in them the key intellectual tools which allowed the oikoumene (the habitable world) to be redefined as a globally-connected world. In this world, all parts of the sphere were designed to be in communication with one another. The coincidence of the Renaissance and the period of European exploration enabled a new geographical understanding fashioned as much by classical theory as by early modern empirical knowledge. Newly discovered lands could then be defined, exploited and colonized. In this way, the author argues, the seeds of the modern era of colonization, expansionism and ultimately globalization were sown. Framing the Early Modern World is a timely work, contributing to a growing discourse on the origins of globalization and the roots of modernity.
MARGARET SMALL is Lecturer in Early Modern History (Europe and the Wider World) at the School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham.
Product details
Number of Pages:
264
Release Date:
2020-08-21
Publication Date:
2020-08-01
Publisher:
Boydell Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1783275200
ISBN13:
9781783275205
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Weight:
564 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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