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Decline in History: The European Experience (Themes in History)
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- Title
- Decline in History: The European Experience (Themes in History)
- ISBN
- 9780745614250
- Publication Name
- Decline in History : the European Experience
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Series
- Themes in History Ser.
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 12.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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The study of decline in history deserves as much attention as progress, and yet there are very few comparative studies available. This book fills that gap. Drawing on the works of Immanuel Wallerstein, Fernand Braudel, Michael Mann and Jonathan Israel to inform his approach, Thomson examines the experience of decline in history with particular reference to Europe. He argues that the history of Afro-Asian and European civilizations has been characterized by a slow diffusion of cultural and technical skills which has occasioned repeated cycles of progress and decline. The European variant of this dynamic was shaped by its unique qualities of political pluralism and economic dynamism, resulting in declines that were 'micro' rather than 'macro' in character. Thomson develops his argument through a structured narrative of economic and technical change in European history from the fall of Rome and the decline of Byzantium to Italy's declines and to those of Portugal and Spain. Within Spain, the decline of Castile is distinguished from those of Andalucia and Aragon; Thomson shows that the final decline of Andalucia and Aragon in the seventeenth century, rather than being a specifically Spanish crisis, was part of a general upheaval affecting the whole of the western Mediterranean and much of central Europe. Wide-ranging and clearly written, Decline in History will be an invaluable text for students of European and comparative history.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Polity Press
ISBN-10
0745614256
ISBN-13
9780745614250
eBay Product ID (ePID)
733761
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Decline in History : the European Experience
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Series
Themes in History Ser.
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
12.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
D118.T49 1998
Reviews
"James Thomson's Decline in History offers an original approach to its subject, combining boldness in conception with care in execution and a lucid exposition with the capacity to draw distinctions wherever they are necessary. The author, a well-known specialist on Mediterranean history, is clearly in command of his material, he is analytic and comparative, and his conclusions are as fresh as they are judicious. This is an ideal book to set students thinking." Professor Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge "This is an unusual and challenging book. James Thomson has chosen to study what to many will seem an unfashionable theme - economic decline - and his approach is ambitiously broad and comparative, from the great ancient empires, via Byzantium to Italy, Portugal and Spain. His study will be of undoubted value to university students through his clear outline of the main theses of historians and social scientists with a comparative approach, in particular Braudel, Wallerstein, Jonathan Israel and Michael Mann, but equally through his valuable discussion of why the different Italian and Iberian economies declined." Stuart Woolf, Università ca'Foscari de Venezia "His thesis is a bold one and will not commmand universal assent, but the theory is certainly stimulating and Thomson's contribution to discussion over decline is much to be welcomed." Jeremy Black, University of Exeter "Thomson's theory is certainly stimulating, and his contribution to discussion over decline is much to be welcomed". Jeremy Black, University of Exeter, Brill's journals, "James Thomson's Decline in History offers an original approach to its subject, combining boldness in conception with care in execution and a lucid exposition with the capacity to draw distinctions wherever they are necessary. The author, a well-known specialist on Mediterranean history, is clearly in command of his material, he is analytic and comparative, and his conclusions are as fresh as they are judicious. This is an ideal book to set students thinking." Professor Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge"This is an unusual and challenging book. James Thomson has chosen to study what to many will seem an unfashionable theme - economic decline - and his approach is ambitiously broad and comparative, from the great ancient empires, via Byzantium to Italy, Portugal and Spain. His study will be of undoubted value to university students through his clear outline of the main theses of historians and social scientists with a comparative approach, in particular Braudel, Wallerstein, Jonathan Israel and Michael Mann, but equally through his valuable discussion of why the different Italian and Iberian economies declined." Stuart Woolf, Universit ca'Foscari de Venezia"His thesis is a bold one and will not commmand universal assent, but the theory is certainly stimulating and Thomson's contribution to discussion over decline is much to be welcomed." Jeremy Black, University of Exeter"Thomson's theory is certainly stimulating, and his contribution to discussion over decline is much to be welcomed". Jeremy Black, University of Exeter, Brill's journals
Table of Content
Preface. Introduction. 1. Braudel's Mediterranean. 2. 'World Economy' and 'World Time'. 3. The 'Rise' of Europe. 4. Byzantium: Declines in the Transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. 5. Italian Declines. 6. Iberian Declines. 7. Decline in European History. Notes. Index.
Copyright Date
1998
Topic
Social History, General, Europe / General, Europe / Medieval
Lccn
98-039778
Dewey Decimal
909/.0982201
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
History
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