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- Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery: Asymmetrical Encounters in European and Global Contexts
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- 2019
- Published by: University College London
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Historians often assume a one-directional transmission of knowledge and ideas, leading to the establishment of spatial hierarchies defined as centres and peripheries. In recent decades, transnational and global history have contributed to a more inclusive understanding of intellectual and cultural exchanges that profoundly challenged the ways in which we draw our mental maps.
Covering the early modern and modern periods, Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery investigates the asymmetrical and multi-directional structure of such encounters within Europe as well as in a global context. Exploring subjects from the shores of the Russian Empire to nation-making in Latin America, the international team of contributors demonstrates how, as products of human agency, centre and periphery are conditioned by mutual dependencies; rather than representing absolute categories of analysis, they are subjective constructions determined by a constantly changing discursive context.
Through its analysis, the volume develops and implements a conceptual framework for remapping centres and peripheries, based on conceptual history and discourse history. As such, it will appeal to a wide variety of historians, including transnational, cultural and intellectual, and historians of early modern and modern periods.
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- Half Title
- pp. i-ii
- Title Page
- p. iii
- Copyright Page
- p. iv
- Table of Contents
- pp. v-vi
- Part I. Concepts
- pp. 15-16
- 3. Europe and the Concept of Margin
- pp. 27-43
- Part II. Globalizing Peripheries
- pp. 61-62
- Part III. Ideas and Commodities in Motion
- pp. 109-110
- List of Figures
- pp. 191-192
- Notes on Contributors
- pp. 193-196
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ISBN
9781787350991
Related ISBN(s)
9781787351004
MARC Record
OCLC
1091029738
Launched on MUSE
2021-11-03
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY