Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery
Asymmetrical Encounters in European and Global Contexts
by Tessa Hauswedell, Axel Körner, Ulrich Tiedau
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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. 
Book Description
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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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Space and Asymmetric Difference in Historical Perspective: An Introduction
Chapter 2
Rethinking Centre and Periphery in Historical Analysis: Land-based Modernization as an Alternative Model from the Peripheries
Chapter 3
Europe and the Concept of Margin
Chapter 4
After Identity: Mentalities, European Asymmetries and the Digital Turn
Chapter 5
From the Baltic to the Pacific: Trade, Shipping and Exploration on the Shores of the Russian Empire
Chapter 6
Republics of Knowledge: Interpreting the World from Latin America
Chapter 7
From Manchester and Lille to the World: Nineteenth Century Provincial Cities Conceptualize Their Place in the Global Order
Chapter 8
Turning Constitutional History Upside Down: The 1820s Revolutions in the Mediterranean
Chapter 9
The Cosmopolitan Morphology of the National Discourse: Italy as a European Centre of Intellectual Modernity
Chapter 10
'The Greatest City the World has ever seen': London's Imperial and European Contexts in British public debates, 1870-1900
Chapter 11
Mediating Hybrids: Consumption and Transnationality
Book Details
Title
Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery
Publisher
UCL Press
Published
2019
Pages
211
Edition
1
Language
English
ISBN13
9781787351011
ISBN10
1787351017
ISBN13 Digital
9781787350991
ISBN10 Digital
1787350991
PDF Size
13.4 MB
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