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1 Online-Ressource (viii, 246 pages)
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maps
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Reproduktion [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010 Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0824840364
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0824828674
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9780824840365
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9780824828677
Series Statement:
Perspectives on the global past
Content:
Regional histories, global processes, cross-cultural interactions / Jerry H. Bentley -- From archaic globalization to international networks, circa 1600-2000 / C.A. Bayly -- Sufi brotherhoods: transcultural/ transstate networks in the Muslim world / John O. Voll -- Cotton: a global industry / Sven Beckert -- From red crosses to golden arches: China, the Red Cross, and the Hague peace conference, 1899-1900 / Caroline Reeves -- Constructing Africa: African American writers before Emancipation / Colin Palmer -- Migration control and the globalization of borders: China and the United States, 1898-1911 / Adam McKeown -- Smuggling and its malcontents / Alan L. Karras -- Cartographies of connection: ocean maps as metaphors for interarea history / Kären Wigen -- Chronology, crossroads, and commonwealths: world-regional schemes and the lessons of Caucasia / Stephen H. Rapp -- Regimes of world order: global integration and the production of difference in twentieth-century world history / Charles Bright, Michael Geyer.
Content:
The essays presented here reflect recent widespread interest in reconsidering the political, geographical, and cultural boundaries conventionally observed by area specialists and others. They intentionally range widely through time and space, dealing with diverse issues and contexts, but each highlights the very general theme of cross-cultural interaction. Although they draw heavily on area studies, the contributors seek to put previously separate bodies of scholarship in dialogue with one another by exploring those interactions that have historically linked world regions.Four general themes are especially prominent in this volume, and the essays develop sophisticated positions on each. On the issue of agency and structure, they offer useful guidance toward recognizing the importance of both human agency and historical structures in historical processes. On the theme of states and their roles in cross-cultural interactions, they acknowledge that states do not entirely control their own destinies but nevertheless deeply influence the development of these exchanges, sometimes decisively so. Regarding the theme of the global and the local, they emphasize the reciprocal influence of global dynamics and local circumstances and agree that analyses must take both into account to be successful. Finally, all of the essays allow that the theme of cross-cultural interaction is crucial to understanding the world and its development through time.Contributors:C. A. Bayly; Sven Beckert; Jerry H. Bentley; Renate Bridenthal; Charles Bright; Michael Geyer; Alan L. Karras; Adam McKeown; Colin Palmer; Stephen H. Rapp, Jr.; Caroline Reeves; John O. Voll; Kären Wigen; Anand A. Yang
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0824828674
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780824828677
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Interactions Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2005
Language:
English
URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvvn790
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