Daedalus articles from June 1998

Daedalus archives from June 1998

Introduction: paths to early modernities - a comparative view.(Early Modernities)
June 22, 1998... The essays in this volume were first presented at a conference in Uppsala in the summer of 1996 as part of a program on "Collective Identity, Public Sphere, and Political Order: Cultural Foundations and Institutional Formations of Contemporary...

Early modernities: varieties and transitions.(Early Modernities)
June 22, 1998... Today it may seem obvious that societies across the globe exhibit largely similar features, yet differ so deeply that any traveler cannot help noticing clear cultural differences between them. Given the self-evident phenomenon of a multiplicity...

India in the vernacular millennium: literary culture and polity, 1000-1500.(Early Modernities)
June 22, 1998... VERNACULARIZATION IN THEORY In the early centuries of the second millennium, wide areas of Eurasia, and most dramatically India and Europe, witnessed a transformation in cultural practice, social-identity formation, and political order with...

Hearing voices: vignettes of early modernity in South Asia, 1400-1750.(Early Modernities)
June 22, 1998... I. About three decades ago, when the major post-World War II debates on the "roots of capitalism" (and thus, for some, the "roots of modernity") were underway, the place of South Asia in the history of Eurasia from the fifteenth to eighteenth...

Territoriality and collective identity in Tokugawa Japan.(Early Modernities)
June 22, 1998... Japan during the Tokugawa period (1603-1868) was, by Western standards, a nation without absolutely fixed borders or clearly defined sovereignty. The emperor in Kyoto was but a symbolic suzerain; actual power within the main islands was divided...

Public life in authoritarian Japan. (Early Modernities)
June 22, 1998... ORIENTATIONS Can a robust public sphere coexist with an authoritarian state? The question cuts to the bone of Japanese politics before 1945. Pushed hard, most historians of Japan would answer (if guardedly) "no." My own answer is "yes," on the...

Boundaries of the public sphere in Ming and Qing China.(Early Modernities)
June 22, 1998... INTRODUCTION Our contemporary debates on whether or not a "public sphere" existed in late imperial China posit three different domains of elite political action and reaction.(1) The first, guan, was the arena of "official" or bureaucratic...

Territorial order and collective-identity tensions in Confucian Asia: China, Vietnam, Korea.(Early Modernities)
June 22, 1998... Writing in the sixteenth century, the great European essayist Montaigne called attention to the rich suggestiveness of Plutarch's remark that the people of Asia were subject to despotism because they did not "know how to pronounce the single...

Cosmopolitans, patriots, Jacobins, and Romantics.(Early Modernities)
June 22, 1998... COSMOPOLITANISM AND THE EXTENDED COURT SYSTEM: THE LUMIERES IN FRANCE Contrary to the common assumption that views the Enlightenment as a heterodox movement at a marked distance to the absolutist state, this essay will argue that the French...

State and public sphere in Spain during the ancient regime. (16th to 18th century)(Early Modernities)
June 22, 1998... THE CHARACTER OF THE STATE AND OF POLITICS Between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries, the Spanish state followed a path marked by the largely unexpected consequences of a sequence of challenges and choices. Spain's public sphere can be...