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6 years ago in Academic Scholarship , Historical Research By Supriya Mishra
When does modern history begin according to historical scholarship?
I'm preparing a literature review on this very topic and need to frame the major historiographical camps. I'm less interested in a personal opinion and more in your analysis of how the field weighs different catalysts intellectual, economic, political and which has gained the most traction in recent scholarship.
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By Keerthi Gupta Answered 5 years ago
The scholarship has decisively moved away from pinning it to a single event. The prevailing consensus I engage with treats it as a long-duration transition, circa 1450-1650. The traditional "Renaissance" view is now layered with stronger arguments for a "global turn" originating in the Iberian voyages, and a "structural" view emphasizing the rise of the nation-state and print capitalism. Modernity's start is now seen as a complex, multi-causal, and geographically plural process.
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