Suchergebnisse

Defining "Others" : how interperceptions shape identities / Paul Gifford -- Writing Christendom in the English Renaissance : a reappraisal of Denys Hay's view of the emergence of "Europe" / Jane Pettegree -- The feminized Indian other : English and French conceptions of "womanhood" / Kate March -- Appropriation and alienation : women travellers and the construction of identity / Patricia Howe -- Eden lost and found : early Canadian women poets look back to Europe including and excluding histories of violence / Wanda Campbell -- Crucesignati signed with the Cross : Tasso's poetics of crusade / Judith Froemmer -- Disciplining the black body : German colonialism and visual violence / Volker Langbehn -- Including and excluding the Holocaust : changing perceptions in German and European identities / Sven Kramer -- Narratives about the expulsion of Germans : a German-Czech comparison / Michaela Peroutkova -- Europe's blind spot on violence : the fall of Yugoslavia and references to World War II / Boris Previsic -- "Oure Occian" : littoral language and the Constance narratives of Chaucer and Boccaccio / Jonathan H. Hsy -- Russia and the West : Russian histories of the European Other / Frances Nethercott -- Otherness within Turkey, and between Turkey and Europe / Melz Ergin-- Transnationalism in the films of Fatih Akin / Rober Hillman -- "Mirror of the West" : a critique and a plea / Kunio Tsunekawa

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.