Roland Wenzlhuemer

A revealing insight into the links between globalization and the technological advances in communication brought about by the telegraph network.

The Telegraph and Globalization

Connecting the Nineteenth-Century World

Christiane Brosius

Today, hardly anything moves as fast across the globe as images and media. This fact opens new avenues to explore social and cultural change, but also poses new theoretical challenges of how to grasp and better understand these changes and flows. Moreover, such movements across geophysical and cultural borders have a historical depth that enables us to explore globalisation and localisation in new ways. Transculturality is still a relatively new field of research in the Humanities through which we sharpen our competence and ‘literacy’ to come to terms with the complexity of globalised cultures. This volume ventures into new domains of research on the transculturality of images and addresses the need to develop new or modify established often ethno- and Eurocentric interpretations of what happens when images travel. It does so by bringing together cutting-edge research from fields such as art history, cultural anthropology, colonial history, Islamic studies, religious studies and literary criticism.

Towards a Multi-Sited Reading of Image Flows

Transcultural Turbulences

Mit dem schnell wachsenden Zuspruch, den die Globalgeschichte in der historischen Forschung findet, haben sich auch ihre Ansätze und methodischen Zugänge vervielfacht. Dieses Lehrbuch verbindet erstmals zentrale Begriffe der Geschichtswissenschaft mit konkreten Beispielen aus der Praxis und zeigt in sechs unterhaltsam zu lesenden Episoden, was Globalgeschichte leistet. Dieser Titel ist auf verschiedenen e-Book-Plattformen (Amazon, Libreka, Libri) auch als e-Pub-Version für mobile Lesegeräte verfügbar.

Eine Einführung in 6 Episoden

Globalgeschichte schreiben

Isabella Löhr

The history of globalization is anything but a no-frills affair that moves smoothly along a clear-cut, unidirectional path of development, eventually leading to seamless global integration. Accordingly, scholarship in the social sciences has increasingly argued against equating the history of globalization processes and transcultural entanglements with the master narrative of the gradual homogenization of the world. Examining the shifting patterns of global connections has, therefore, become the main challenge for all those who seek to understand the past, the present and the future of modern societies. And this challenge includes finding a place for the nation state. The studies presented here argue that looking at the nation state from the perspective of global entanglements opens the door for its interpretation as a dynamic and multi-layered structure that takes part in globalization processes and plays various and at times even contradictory roles at the same time.

Roland Wenzlhuemer

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