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The Seventeenth-Century Crisis and the Unity of Eurasian History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Niels Steensgaard
Niels Steensgaard
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University of Copenhagen
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The seventeenth-century crisis concept served the research in European history well, it deepened and broadedned and broadened our understanding of well-studied issues, even though we were far from agreeing on a definition of what the seventeenth-century crisis was or is. This is the kind of conceptual embarrassment which baffles our colleagues in the social sciences, but which the historian takes in his stride.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , October 1990 , pp. 683 - 697
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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This is a revised version of a paper presented at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., in March 1989.

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