Periodisation of early modern

The ‘early modern’ period which is said to a transitional phase from the medieval to the modern phase in history .The early modern period has been timed from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth century. This period marks the end of the middle ages and goes further into the new era of industrialization and modernity in the nineteenth and the twentieth century’s. For many historians the term ‘early modern’ seems to be an attempt to show the rapid changes occurring in the human organization themselves as well as interaction with other human beings and with the natural world. The early modern is a period which is said to have interconnections, continuities, general trends, common to and linked them all are questioned.  The term early modern is largely meaningless except for Europe and the early modern period has no history, only histories seem to be a dilemma.

As I look into whole notion of early modern period I would first like to draw the attention towards the term which Joseph Fletcher has examined i.e., interconnection and continuities. Interconnection which he denotes as a phenomena in which there is a contact linking two or more societies. He distinguish between horizontal and vertical continuity ,as he emphasizes that horizontal continuity is denoted by an economic , social and cultural phenomena experienced by two or more societies between which there is not necessarily any communication. The early modern world is not easy for historian to integrate, mainly because the historical work that has been done especially for the non-western world has tended to emphasize political and diplomatic history and more recently institutional history. To find the interconnection and horizontal continuities of the early modern history, we need to look at the political and institutional history and examine the development in the economies societies and cultures of the modern world.