Journal of Early Modern History
The early modern period of world history (ca. 1300-1800) was marked by a rapidly increasing level of global interaction. Between the aftermath of Mongol conquest in the East and the onset of industrialization in the West, a framework was established for new kinds of contacts and collective self-definition across an unprecedented range of human and physical geographies.
The Journal of Early Modern History (JEMH), the official journal of the University of Minnesota's Center for Premodern Studies, is the first scholarly journal dedicated to the study of early modernity from this world-historical perspective, whether through explicitly comparative studies, or by the grouping of studies around a given thematic, chronological, or geographic frame.
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Special 25th Anniversary Issue
Simon Ditchfield: "Introduction"
Jim Tracy: "The Journal of Early Modern History, 1994-2010: Some Personal Reflections"
Giorgio Riello: "Economic and Social History"
Karin Vélez: "Religious, Intellectual, and Cultural History"
Sarah M. S. Pearsall: "Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies"
Rila Mukherjee: "The Global Early Modern"
Liz Covart: "Popular and Public History"
Merry Wiesner-Hanks: "What is Early Modern History?: An Origin Story"
Book Reviews
Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe by Verena Krebs
Das andere Christentum. Zur transkonfessionellen Verflechtungsgeschichte von äthiopischer Orthodoxie und europäischem Protestantismus by Stanislau Paulau
Reviewed by Sam Kennerley
The First World Empire Portugal, War and Military Revolution, edited by Hélder Carvalhal, André Murteira, and Roger Lee de Jesus
Reviewed by Christopher Storrs
Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History by Alan Strathern
Reviewed by Jonathan Brack