Veröffentlicht von De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Critical Readings in Global Intellectual History

Herausgegeben von: Susan Richter, Milinda Banerjee, Sebastian Meurer und Li Xuetao

ISSN: 2568-843X

e-ISSN 2568-8448

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The series facilitates access to the fast-moving discussion about Global Intellectual History from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. It provides a forum for new methodological approaches and unconventional formats. Every volume engages in a critical reading of the state of research and explicitly reflects on its methodological toolkit.

Buch 2020

Negotiating Friendships

A Canton Merchant Between East and West in the Early 19th Century

Shuo Wang

Band 3 in dieser Reihe

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Social network are nowadays inherent parts of our lives and highly developed communication technique helps us maintain our relationships. But how did it work in the early 19th century, in a time without cell phones and internet? A Chinese Hong Merchant in Canton Trade named Houqua (1769–1843), who lived in isolated Qing China, gives us an outstanding answer. Despite various barriers in cultures, languages, political situations and his identity as a Chinese merchant strictly under control of the Qing government, Houqua established a commercial network across three continents: Asia, North America and Europe. This book will not only uncover his secrets and actions in his Chinese social network especially patronage relationships in traditional Chinese society, but also reconstruct his intercultural network, including his unique and even "modern" friendship with some American traders which lasted almost half a century after Houqua´s death.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110629644
ISBN:: 9783110629644
ISBN:: 9783110625998
ISBN:: 9783110625851
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Neuere Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Globalgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Wissens- und Ideengeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2022

The Turkish Connection

Global Intellectual Histories of the Late Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey

Deniz Kuru, Hazal Papuccular

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

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Covering a rich array of global aspects, ranging from individuals as ideational entrepreneurs to transnational intellectual trajectories, this volume deals with multiple dimensions of global and transnational backgrounds pertaining to Turkey’s intellectual history, starting with the 19th and reaching the 21st-century. The book engages with the late Ottoman and republican Turkish periods through topics such as the transnational processes that contributed to the development of modern Turkish philosophy, the Bosnian and Bulgarian intellectuals at the end times of the Ottoman imperial order, Wilsonianism’s impact, the role of Westerners in promoting Ottoman political agendas, the global connections and ramifi cations of Turkish Islamism as well as Turkish anticlericalism and leftism. The aim is to globalize late Ottoman and republican Turkish intellectual histories by presenting distinct frameworks for advancing the Global Intellectual History agenda in this distinct setting.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110757293
ISBN:: 9783110757293
ISBN:: 9783110757354
ISBN:: 9783110756272
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Neuere Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Europa
Fachgebiet:: Südosteuropa
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Globalgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Wissens- und Ideengeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2018

Why China did not have a Renaissance – and why that matters

An interdisciplinary Dialogue

Thomas Maissen, Barbara Mittler

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

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Concepts of historical progress or decline and the idea of a cycle of historical movement have existed in many civilizations. In spite of claims that they be transnational or even universal, periodization schemes invariably reveal specific social and cultural predispositions.
Our dialogue, which brings together a Sinologist and a scholar of early modern History in Europe, considers periodization as a historical phenomenon, studying the case of the “Renaissance.” Understood in the tradition of J. Burckhardt, who referred back to ideas voiced by the humanists of the 14th and 15th centuries, and focusing on the particularities of humanist dialogue which informed the making of the “Renaissance” in Italy, our discussion highlights elements that distinguish it from other movements that have proclaimed themselves as “r/Renaissances,” studying, in particular, the Chinese Renaissance in the early 20th century.
While disagreeing on several fundamental issues, we suggest that interdisciplinary and interregional dialogue is a format useful to addressing some of the more far-reaching questions in global history, e.g. whether and when a periodization scheme such as “Renaissance” can fruitfully be applied to describe non-European experiences.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110576399
ISBN:: 9783110576399
ISBN:: 9783110710069
ISBN:: 9783110573961
ISBN:: 9783110574036
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Frühe Neuzeit
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Europa
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine europäische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Asien-Pazifik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien, Methoden, Historische Hilfswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Geschichtstheorien
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg