At the dawn of modernity : biology, culture, and material life in Europe after the year 1000 /

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 moderniz...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levine, David, 1946- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2001.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnvv0
Table of Contents:
  • Lineages of early modernization
  • Shards of modernity
  • Living in the material world
  • Reproducing feudalism
  • Negative feedbacks
  • Recombinant mutations.