The origin of early modernity

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dc.contributor.authorParamore, K.
dc.date.accessioned2026-05-22T11:50:10Z
dc.date.available2026-05-22T11:50:10Z
dc.date.issued2026-04-01
dc.description© 2026, Kiri Paramore. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license.
dc.description.abstractThe earliest sustained use of the concept of “early modernity” by academic historians anywhere in the world occurred in the first decades of the twentieth century in Japan. This was a time when China and Japan were still under significant Western imperial pressure and Japan was engaging in its own imperial adventures in China and Korea. Early modernity was conceived partly in reaction to how the contemporaneous academic periodization of Ancient-Medieval-Modern was used to justify imperialism. Inserting a new period between the medieval and modern challenged European and Japanese historical narratives, which claimed that modern nation-state sovereignty was an outcome of medieval development. Early modernity instead introduced a new, alternative trajectory towards nationhood and sovereignty, one not dependent on a stage of feudal militarism. It expanded the possibilities of modernity into more culturally and historically pluralist terrains, offering a vision of modernity not necessarily bound to modern imperialism. This in turn created space for critical reflections on the nature of global modernity, reflections that continue to be seen in early modern history writing today. ©; Kiri Paramore, 2026. Published with license by Koninklijke Brill BV. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license.en
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dc.identifier.authororcidParamore, K.§0000-0003-0325-3831
dc.identifier.citationParamore, K 2026, 'The origin of early modernity', Journal of Early Modern History, vol. 30, no. 1-2, pp. 50-74. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700658-bja10121
dc.identifier.doi10.1163/15700658-bja10121
dc.identifier.endpage74
dc.identifier.issn1385-3783
dc.identifier.issued1-2
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of Early Modern History
dc.identifier.otherRIS: urn:BB99444183DECCFBE4222977F31C81C1
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-0325-3831/work/215517917
dc.identifier.startpage50
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/18835
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105036194347
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105036194347?origin=resultslist
dc.identifier.volume30
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectChina
dc.subjectEarly modern
dc.subjectImperialism
dc.subjectJapan
dc.subjectMedieval
dc.subjectModern
dc.subjectModernity
dc.subject[LanguageLiteratureCulture]
dc.titleThe origin of early modernityen
dc.typeArticle (Peer reviewed)
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