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Early modern states in Europe and the Americas offer a field of research dealing with questions of the absence, presence, or enforcement of statehood and institutions, as well as how individuals interacted in different settings of state formation such as empires, composite monarchies, and confederal republics. Instead of looking at the military-fiscal aspect, this volume takes a socio-economic perspective on these questions, using the concepts of multiple modernities, globalization, and glocalism as a lens for finding new answers to old questions. The chapter assesses the proceeding chapters and shows how in many respects the broad way that “modernities” resulted from a variety of programmatic responses to a globalizing environment under very different circumstances, with recourses to traditions or conservative practices, and with often retarding effects, rather than being a single ideal state after following a straight line to more rationality, improvement, or inclusive institutions.
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Hyden-Hanscho, V., Stangl, W. (2023). Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond—Critical Remarks on Old Concepts. In: Hyden-Hanscho, V., Stangl, W. (eds) Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond. Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8417-4_15
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