Monetary, Administrative and Popular Infrastructures in Asia and Europe 1500-1900

Monetary, Administrative and Popular Infrastructures in Asia and Europe 1500-1900

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Publisher's Synopsis

The five studies reprinted here have been significantly revised for this publication and are introduced by a new essay placing them in their intellectual context and in the framework of the authorÆs longer-term purposes. At their basis lies a detailed study of monetary production, forms of exchange and processes of state formation in the Indian subcontinent during the early modern centuries. The authorÆs aim, however, is then to uncover the hidden fabric of institutions, ordinary practices and common knowledge û the infrastructures of a common life that he argues stretched across Asia and Europe, a Euro-Asian continuum underlying all regional and local developments. In consequence the articles encompass an increasingly comparative subject matter and reflect critically on the historiography and its methodologies. - - Les cinq Útudes rÚimprimÚes ici ont ÚtÚ rÚvisÚes de faþon significative pour cette Údition. Une nouvelle introduction y a ÚtÚ ajoutÚe afin dÆen faire ressortir le contexte intellectuel et le but. A la base de ces Útudes se trouve une analyse dÚtaillÚe de la production monÚtaire, des formes dÆÚchange et des processus de formation dÆÚtat dans le sous-continent indien durant les premiers siÞcles modernes. Le propos de lÆauteur est, par la suite, de dÚvoiler le caractÞre cachÚ des institutions, des pratiques ordinaires et du savoir commun û les infrastructures dÆune vie commune qui, affirme-t-il, sÆÚtendaient au travers de lÆAsie et de lÆEurope; une continuitÚ eurasienne dont dÚcoulaient tous les dÚveloppements rÚgionaux et locaux. En consÚquence, ces articles ceignent un sujet dÆordre comparatif croissant et reprÚsentent une reflexion critique au sujet de son historiographie et de ses mÚthodologies.

Book information

ISBN: 9780860783428
Publisher: Ashgate
Imprint: Variorum
Pub date:
DEWEY: 950
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 700g
Height: 157mm
Width: 230mm
Spine width: 25mm