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This examination of the social history of modernization investigates the centuries that followed the year 1000, when a new kind of society emerged in Europe. The text highlights both the top-down and bottom-up changes that characterized the social experience of early modernization.

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"He is done it again! No one else combines David Levine's deep knowledge of population processes, unforced mastery of Western European social history, quick eye for unlikely connections, graceful way with a phrase, and sheet enthusiasm for historical discovery. Read him for pleasure and illumination." - Charles Tilly, author of Durable Inequality"

At the Dawn of Modernity

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 19 February 2001
      ISBN-13 9780520220584
      978-0520220584
      ISBN-10 0520220587
      Also in:
      Sociology and anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This examination of the social history of modernization investigates the centuries that followed the year 1000, when a new kind of society emerged in Europe. The text highlights both the top-down and bottom-up changes that characterized the social experience of early modernization.

      Trade Review
      "He is done it again! No one else combines David Levine's deep knowledge of population processes, unforced mastery of Western European social history, quick eye for unlikely connections, graceful way with a phrase, and sheet enthusiasm for historical discovery. Read him for pleasure and illumination." - Charles Tilly, author of Durable Inequality"

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