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At the Dawn of Modernity: Biology, Culture, and Material Life in Europe after the Year 1000
David Levine
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Description for At the Dawn of Modernity: Biology, Culture, and Material Life in Europe after the Year 1000
Hardback. This examination of the social history of modernization investigates the centuries that followed the year 1000, when a new kind of society emerged in Europe. The text highlights both the "top-down" and "bottom-up" changes that characterized the social experience of early modernization. Num Pages: 438 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 508.
Looking at a neglected period in the social history of modernization, David Levine investigates the centuries that followed the year 1000, when a new kind of society emerged in Europe. New commercial routines, new forms of agriculture, new methods of information technology, and increased population densities all played a role in the prolonged transition away from antiquity and toward modernity. At the Dawn of Modernity highlights both "top-down" and "bottom-up" changes that characterized the social experience of early modernization. In the former category are the Gregorian Reformation, the imposition of feudalism, and the development of centralizing state formations. Of equal ... Read more
Looking at a neglected period in the social history of modernization, David Levine investigates the centuries that followed the year 1000, when a new kind of society emerged in Europe. New commercial routines, new forms of agriculture, new methods of information technology, and increased population densities all played a role in the prolonged transition away from antiquity and toward modernity. At the Dawn of Modernity highlights both "top-down" and "bottom-up" changes that characterized the social experience of early modernization. In the former category are the Gregorian Reformation, the imposition of feudalism, and the development of centralizing state formations. Of equal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
438
Condition
New
Number of Pages
438
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520220584
SKU
V9780520220584
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About David Levine
David Levine is Professor of Theory and Policy Studies at the University of Toronto. His previous books include Family Formation in an Age of Nascent Capitalism (1977), Poverty and Piety in an English Village: Terling, 1525-1700 (1979), Reproducing Families: The Political Economy of English Population History (1987), and The Making of an Industrial Society: Whickham, 1560-1765 (1992).
Reviews for At the Dawn of Modernity: Biology, Culture, and Material Life in Europe after the Year 1000
"He is done it again! No one else combines David Levine's deep knowledge of population processes, unforced mastery of Western European social history, quick eye for unlikely connections, graceful way with a phrase, and sheet enthusiasm for historical discovery. Read him for pleasure and illumination." - Charles Tilly, author of Durable Inequality"