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Title Re-mapping centre and periphery : asymmetrical encounters in European and global contexts / edited by Tessa Hauswedell, Axel Körner, Ulrich Tiedau
Published London : UCL Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (colour)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; 1. Space and Asymmetric Difference in Historical Perspective: An Introduction; Part I: Concepts; 2. Rethinking Centre and Periphery in Historical Analysis: Land-based Modernization as an Alternative Model from the Peripheries; 3. Europe and the Concept of Margin; 4. After Identity: Mentalities, European Asymmetries and the Digital Turn; Part II: Globalizing Peripheries; 5. From the Baltic to the Pacific: Trade, Shipping and Exploration on the Shores of the Russian Empire
6. Republics of Knowledge: Interpreting the World from Latin America7. From Manchester and Lille to the World: Nineteenth-century Provincial Cities Conceptualize their Place in the Global Order; Part III: Ideas and Commodities in Motion; 8. Turning Constitutional History Upside Down: The 1820s Revolutions in the Mediterranean; 9. The Cosmopolitan Morphology of the National Discourse: Italy as a European Centre of Intellectual Modernity; 10. 'The Greatest City the World has Ever Seen': London's Imperial and European Contexts in British Public Debates, 1870-1900
11. Mediating Hybrids: Consumption and Transnationality12. Re-mapping Centre and Periphery: Concluding Thoughts; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Index
Summary This edited collection examines historical mechanisms of cultural and intellectual exchange both in European and global contexts. It questions existing intellectual and political hierarchies between centres and peripheries and focuses in particular on perspectives from alleged margins
Analysis European history
global history
cultural exchange
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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In Books at JSTOR: Open Access. JSTOR
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks). OAPEN
Subject Cultural relations -- History
Intercultural communication -- History
HISTORY -- General.
Cultural relations.
Intercultural communication.
General & world history.
European history.
History: earliest times to present day.
Social & cultural history.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Hauswedell, Tessa, 1978- editor.
Körner, Axel, 1967- editor.
Tiedau, Ulrich, 1968- editor.
ISBN 9781787350991
1787350991
9781787351028
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9781787351035
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