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Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany: Microhistories of Mobility, Materiality, and Belonging

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Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany

Microhistories of Mobility, Materiality, and Belonging

Edited by Christina Brauner, Renate Dürr, Philip Hahn, Anne Sophie Overkamp, Simon Siemianowski

Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license with support from the German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.

386 pages, 26 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80539-873-8 $150.00/£115.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (March 2025)


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Global history has come of age but has had little impact on the historiography of early modern Germany. This volume seeks to bring a global perspective to the history of Central Europe by addressing understudied global and colonial entanglements. Exploring the impact of these interactions on court life and home towns, labor migration, material culture, and religious communities, the microhistories presented here reveal the myriad ways in which connections and disconnections underpinned early modern Germany. The authors engage with contemporary debates about global history in general, taking its lacunae as a cue for substantial methodological revisions.

Christina Brauner is Associate Professor for Late Medieval and Early Modern Global History at the University of Tübingen. She specializes in the history of West and West Central Africa before 1800, the history of religion, and diplomatic and economic history.

Renate Dürr is Full Professor of Modern History at the University of Tübingen. Her latest publications include chapters in Protestant Empires: Globalizing the Reformations (Cambridge, 2020) and Belonging, Materials, Dependency: Perspectives from Early Modern History (De Gruyter, 2024).

Philip Hahn is Full Professor of Early Modern History at Saarland University. A specialist in urban history, the history of migration and mobility, and sensory history, he is currently working on his second monograph, entitled Sensory Communities: Perception, Order, and Community-Building in the Early Modern Town.

Anne Sophie Overkamp is, as of October 2024, Associate Professor for the History of Science and Technology at the University of Wuppertal. Her research interests include German social and economic history with a particular focus on consumption history and material culture, as well as the history of botany in global and imperial contexts.

Simon Siemianowski is Assistant Professor at the University of Tübingen. His research focuses on global history and the history of language and cultural translation in the early modern period.

Subject: History: Medieval/Early ModernColonial HistoryRefugee and Migration Studies
Area: Germany

Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany Edited by Christina Brauner, Renate Dürr, Philip Hahn, Anne Sophie Overkamp, Simon Siemianowski is available as open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from the German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.

OA ISBN: 978-1-80539-875-2



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