ISBN:
9781787350990
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (210 p.)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Re-mapping centre and periphery
DDC:
303.48209
Keywords:
Cultural relations History
;
Intercultural communication History
;
General & world history
;
European history
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History: earliest times to present day
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Social & cultural history
;
Relations culturelles - Histoire
;
HISTORY - General
;
Cultural relations
;
Intercultural communication
;
History
;
Communication interculturelle - Histoire
;
European history
;
global history
;
cultural exchange
Abstract:
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
Note:
English
