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Record Nr.

UNINA9910683400603321

Titolo

Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery : asymmetrical encounters in European and global contexts / / Tessa Hauswedell, Axel Körner, Ulrich Tiedau, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : UCL Press, , 2019

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 203 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

909.82

Soggetti

Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Space and asymmetric difference in historical perspective : an introduction / Alex Körner -- Rethinking centre and periphery in historical analysis : land-based modernization as an alternative model from the peripheries / Marta Petrusewicz-- Europe and the concept of the margin / Jan Ifverson-- After identity : mentalities, European asymmetries and the digital turn / Joris van Eijnatten-- From the Baltic to the Pacific : trade, shipping and exploration on the shores of the Russian Empire / Michael North-- Republics of knowledge : interpreting the world from Latin America / Nicola Miller-- From Manchester and Lille to the world : nineteenth-century provincial cities conceptualize their place in the global order / Harry Stopes-- Turning constitutional history upside down : the 1820s revolutions in the Mediterranean / Jens Späth-- The cosmopolitan morphology of the national discourse : Italy as a European centre of intellectual modernity / Alessandro de Arcangelis-- 'The greatest city the world has ever seen' : London's imperial and European contexts in British public debates, 1870-1900 / Tessa Hauswedell-- Mediating hybrids : consumption and transnationality / Hermione Giffard-- Re-mapping centre and periphery : concluding thoughts / Ulrich Tiedau.

Sommario/riassunto

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.  Praise for Re-mapping Centre and Periphery  '... [A] fine examination and quantitative analysis of the meaning of metropolis by Tessa Hauswedell. ... One of the strengths of the volume lies in its imaginative selection of cases that link these concerns to political, industrial, and agricultural modernisation, scientific, trade and municipal networks, nationalism and consumption, or the concepts of identity, margin and metropolis. ... This collection of essays brings new insights into the multi-layered and challenging subject of centre and periphery. ...The book thus makes a welcome contribution to ongoing efforts in the social and human sciences to "re-map centre and periphery".' Connections.