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The Rise of the Modern West: Europe, 1400-1599
Author:
Rila Mukherjee
Series:
The Global Fabric: Histories Across Time
ISBN:
9789376540037
Binding:
Paperback
Year:
2027
Pages:
178
Size:
15 x 23 cm
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How did Europe become ‘the modern West’, and can that transformation be understood as a European story alone?
The Rise of the Modern West: Europe, 1400-1599
examines a formative period in European history through the connections that linked Europe to wider worlds. Ideas and religions, objects and technologies, commodities and institutions, and peoples moved across regions, while contact, migration, trade, conquest, disease, and environmental change reshaped societies on both sides of the Atlantic.Written in alignment with DS 6, ‘Rise of the Modern West - I [15th-16th Centuries]’, under the National Education Policy 2020, and the UGC-recommended paper ‘Rise of the Modern West - I’, the book places familiar themes of early modern European history within the larger histories of Africa and the Americas. It draws attention to intellectual exchange, political interaction, climate, and the uneven consequences of encounter across time and space.Part of
The Global Fabric: Histories Across Time
, the book encourages students to approach the rise of the modern West not as an isolated European achievement, but as a historical process shaped through connections, encounters, and exchanges.
About the Author
Rila Mukherjee
Rila Mukherjee taught history for thirty-one years at Jadavpur University and the University of Hyderabad. In her teaching and writing on European and world history, she has drawn on original materials in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and English to explain major historical ideas, debates, and changes clearly to students and teachers.
She has written textbooks, reference works, and historical surveys, and has taken part in international research projects on Europe-Asia relations supported by institutions and funding bodies in France, the United Kingdom, and Japan. She has also reviewed research for international funding agencies and institutions, including the European Science Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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