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Portals of Globalization
Repositioning Mumbai’s Ports and Zones, 1833–2014
Inbunden, 2019
1274 kr
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While ports are traditionally considered national infrastructure sites that connect states to global markets, special economic zones and past free ports are portrayed as threats to national sovereignty. This book calls these narratives into question as it explores the history of planning Mumbai’s …
Spatial Formats under the Global Condition
Av Matthias Middell, Steffi Marung
Inbunden, 2019
1450 kr
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Contributions to this volume summarize and discuss the theoretical foundations of the Collaborative Research Centre at Leipzig University which address the relationship between processes of (re-)spatialization on the one hand and the establishment and characteristics of spatial formats on the other …
Southern African Liberation Movements and the Global Cold War ‘East’
Transnational Activism 1960–1990
Av Lena Dallywater, Chris Saunders m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1450 kr
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In the global context of the Cold War, the relationship between liberation movements and Eastern European states obviously changed and transformed. Similarly, forms of (material) aid and (ideological) encouragement underwent changes over time. The articles assembled in this volume argue that the …
Between East and South
Spaces of Interaction in the Globalizing Economy of the Cold War
Av Anna Calori, Anne-Kristin Hartmetz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1517 kr
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During the Cold War, alternative globalization projects were underway: socialist Eastern Europe and left-leaning countries in the Third World maintained close economic relations. The two worlds traded and exchanged know-how and technology. This book examines the specific spaces of interaction of …
Spatial Entrepreneurs
Actors and Practices of Space-Making Under the Global Condition
Inbunden, 2023
1209 kr
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As essential components of globalization, the study of practices and processes of space formation promotes a nuanced understanding of globalization. How do people create spaces for social action under the global condition, especially since the nineteenth century, when global interconnectedness …
French Revolution as a Moment of Respatialization
Av Matthias Middell, Megan Maruschke
Inbunden, 2019
1607 kr
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The French Revolution has primarily been understood as a national event that also had a lasting impact in Europe and in the Atlantic world. Recently, historiography has increasingly emphasized how France’s overseas colonies also influenced the contours of the French Revolution. This volume examines …
Locating the Global
Spaces, Networks and Interactions from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
Av Holger Weiss
Inbunden, 2020
1403 kr
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This volume adds to the plurality of global histories by locating the global through its articulation and manifestation within particular localities. It accomplishes this by bringing together interlinked case-studies that analyse various temporal and spatial dimensions of the global in the local …
Transregional Connections in the History of East-Central Europe
Inbunden, 2021
1058 kr
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Transregional connections play a fundamental role in the history of East-Central Europe. This volume explores this connectivity by showing how people from eastern and central parts of Europe have positioned themselves within global processes while, in turn, also shaping them. The contributions …
Transnational Religious Spaces
Religious Organizations and Interactions in Africa, East Asia, and Beyond
Inbunden, 2020
1408 kr
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This volume, bringing together work by scholars from Europe, East Asia, North America, and West Africa, investigates transnational religious spaces in a comparative manner by juxtaposing East Asian and African examples. It highlights flows of ideas, actors, and organizations out of, into, or within …
Spaces of Responsibility
Negotiating Industrial Gold Mining in Burkina Faso
Av Diana Ayeh
Inbunden, 2021
1207 kr
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Spaces of Responsibility explores the role of ethics in (re)ordering extractive relations under the global condition. Through an empirical investigation of actors, places, and ideas in and around Burkina Faso’s industrial gold mining sector, this volume carries out an anti-essentialist yet critical …
Mapping Modern Mahayana
Chinese Buddhism and Migration in the Age of Global Modernity
Av Jens Reinke
Inbunden, 2021
1029 kr
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This book presents a multi-sited ethnographic study of the global development of the Taiwanese Buddhist order Fo Guang Shan. It explores the order’s modern Buddhist social engagements by examining three globally dispersed field sites: Los Angeles in the United States of America, Bronkhorstspruit in …
Lawful Conquest?
European Colonial Law and Appropriation Practices in Northeastern South America, Trinidad, and Tobago, 1498–1817
Inbunden, 2021
1206 kr
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The global expansion of European colonization is commonly perceived as lawful according to the valid European colonial law of the time. This book is substantially challenging this belief by uncovering its legal justifications based on discovery and terra nullius as retrospectively created legal …
West and the Word
Imagining, Formatting, and Ordering the American West in Nineteenth-Century Cultural Discourse
Av Steffen Wöll
Inbunden, 2020
1408 kr
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Western expansion in North America has mainly been described as either a linear sequence energized by nineteenth-century nation-building processes at a moving frontier, or as the practice of settler colonialism and its exploitation of resources and displacement of nonwhite peoples. This book …
Imagining Southern Spaces
Hemispheric and Transatlantic Souths in Antebellum US Writings
Inbunden, 2021
1043 kr
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Identifying the antebellum era in the United States as a transitional setting, Imagining Southern Spaces´investigates spatialization processes about the South during a time when intensifying debates over the abolition of slavery led to a heightened period of (re)spatialization in the region. Taking …
Spatial Formats under the Global Condition
Av Matthias Middell, Steffi Marung
Häftad, 2021
346 kr
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Contributions to this volume summarize and discuss the theoretical foundations of the Collaborative Research Centre at Leipzig University which address the relationship between processes of (re-)spatialization on the one hand and the establishment and characteristics of spatial formats on the other …
Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and Africa
New Perspectives on the Era of Decolonization, 1950s to 1990s
Av Chris Saunders, Helder Adegar Fonseca m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1288 kr
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It is now widely recognised that a Cold War perspective falls short in unfolding the complex geographies of connections and the multipolarity of actions and transactions that were shaped through the movement of individuals and ideas from Africa to the "East" and from the "East" to Africa in the …
Making Spaces through Infrastructure
Visions, Technologies, and Tensions
Av Marian Burchardt, Dirk van Laak
Inbunden, 2023
1391 kr
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Infrastructures are fundamental means through which societies create spaces, but little is known about the precise ways in which this occurs. How have infrastructures animated certain understandings of space? How do infrastructures stabilize, or undermine, the spatial formats in which we live, …
Exiled in East Germany
Life Stories of Malawian and South African Freedom Fighters during the Cold War
Inbunden, 2024
660 kr
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The presence of Africans in the German Democratic Republic is very rarely thought of in connection with the experience of exile. Instead, Africans in the GDR are predominantly viewed through the prism of educational and labor migration. While such research has undoubtedly produced valuable …
Age of Exploration
How Chinese Scientists and Administrators Discovered China
Av Elisabeth Kaske, Elisabeth Köll
Inbunden, 2024
1403 kr
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In the early twentieth century, Chinese intellectuals came to realize that Westerners surpassed them not only in knowledge of the world, but also in knowledge of China itself. A rising generation of Chinese scientists, engineers, and administrators was eager to address this state of affairs and …
Migrant and her Trafficker
Nineteenth-Century European Politics, a Metaphor and the Law
Av Ruth Ennis
Inbunden, 2025
994 kr
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By the end of the nineteenth century, terms like "white slavery", "la traite des blanches" and "Mädchenhandel" had become linguistic equivalents to describe the (coerced) transnational migration of women and their subsequent sale of sex. This book explores the historical roots of this Eurocentric …
Communist Actors in African Decolonial Transitions
Comparative Perspectives
Av Helder Adegar Fonseca, Chris Saunders m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1068 kr
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In the long and protracted process of decolonization in sub-Saharan Africa (1957–1994), three key moments in the transitions from colonial/white-ruled states to independent majority-ruled states can be identified: 1957–1965, 1974–1980, and 1988–1994. These transitional phases of decolonization in …
Pan-African Aesthetics
Colonial to Postcolonial Struggles for Definitions (1956–2016)
Inbunden, 2026
1217 kr
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Pan-Africanism has been a global project aiming to unite people of African descent since the late nineteenth century. Notions of Black and African arts and aesthetics have functioned as a bridge and brought positive identification across national, ethnic, or class divides even when rifts have …
Global History From Below
Local Contexts, Encounters and Exchanges in the Modern Era
Av Kasper Braskén, Jonas Ahlskog m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1270 kr
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How can historians study the interplay between local and global contexts, exchanges and encounters in the modern era? This volume contributes to the field of global history by exploring the concept of “global history from below” and investigates global historical scales of analysis, the relation …
