Globalization And Transculturality From Antiquity To The Pre Modern World

Author : Serena Autiero,Matthew Adam Cobb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000432855

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Globalization and Transculturality from Antiquity to the Pre-Modern World by Serena Autiero,Matthew Adam Cobb Pdf

This book explores how globalization and transculturality are useful theoretical tools for studying pre-modern societies and their long-distance connections. Among the themes explored are how these concepts can enhance our understanding of trade networks, the spread of religions, the diffusion of global fashions, the migration of technologies, public and private initiatives, and wider cultural changes. In this book, archaeologists and ancient historians demonstrate how in diverse contexts – from the Bronze Age to colonial times – humanity displayed an urge and an incredible capacity to connect with distant lands and people. Adopting and modifying approaches originally developed for the study of contemporary societies, it is possible to enhance our understanding of the human past, not only in economic terms, but also the cultural significance of such interconnections. This book provides both the wider public and the specialist reader with a fresh point of view on global issues relating to the past; in turn, allowing us to look anew at developments in the contemporary world. Its large chronological and geographical scope should prove appealing to those who want more than mere Eurocentric history. Teachers and students of world history and archaeology will find this book a useful resource.

Author : Valentina A. Grasso
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009252973

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Pre-Islamic Arabia by Valentina A. Grasso Pdf

This book delves into the political and cultural developments of pre-Islamic Arabia, focusing on the religious attitudes of the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula and its northern extension into the Syrian desert. Between the third and the seventh century, Arabia was on the edge of three great empires (Iran, Rome and Aksūm) and at the centre of a lucrative network of trade routes. Valentina Grasso offers an interpretative framework which contextualizes the choice of Arabian elites to become Jewish sympathisers and/or convert to Christianity and Islam by probing the mobilization of faith in the shaping of Arabian identities. For the first time the Arabians of the period are granted autonomy from marginalizing (mostly Western) narratives framing them as 'barbarians' inhabiting the fringes of Rome and Iran and/or deterministic analyses in which they are depicted retrospectively as exemplified by the Muslims' definition of the period as Jāhilīyah, 'ignorance'.

Author : Roudometof, Victor N.,Dessì, Ugo
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839109010

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Handbook of Culture and Glocalization by Roudometof, Victor N.,Dessì, Ugo Pdf

Discourse-based approaches to studying organizations have grown in significance over the last 25 years. This accessible and insightful book exemplifies how to use a discursive approach to study organizations. By drawing on her own empirical research, Cynthia Hardy aligns key theoretical assumptions with a range of case studies to demonstrate the value and adaptability of a discursive approach.

Author : Anna Boroffka
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110748017

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Between Encyclopedia and Chorography by Anna Boroffka Pdf

During the early modern period, regional specified compendia – which combine information on local moral and natural history, towns and fortifications with historiography, antiquarianism, images series or maps – gain a new agency in the production of knowledge. Via literary and aesthetic practices, the compilations construct a display of regional specified knowledge. In some cases this display of regional knowledge is presented as a display of a local cultural identity and is linked to early modern practices of comparing and classifying civilizations. At the core of the publication are compendia on the Americas which research has described as chorographies, encyclopeadias or – more recently – 'cultural encyclopaedias'. Studies on Asian and European encyclopeadias, universal histories and chorographies help to contextualize the American examples in the broader field of an early modern and transcultural knowledge production, which inherits and modifies the ancient and medieval tradition.

Author : Sitta von Reden
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783110607628

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Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies by Sitta von Reden Pdf

The Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies offers in three volumes the first comprehensive discussion of economic development in the empires of the Afro-Eurasian world region to elucidate the conditions under which large quantities of goods and people moved across continents and between empires. Volume 3: Frontier-Zone Processes and Transimperial Exchange analyzes frontier zones as particular landscapes of encounter, economic development, and transimperial network formation. The chapters offer problematizing approaches to frontier zone processes as part of and in between empires, with the goal of better understanding how and why goods and resources moved across the Afro-Eurasian region. Key frontiers in mountains and steppes, along coasts, rivers, and deserts are investigated in depth, demonstrating how local landscapes, politics, and pathways explain network practices and participation in long-distance trade. The chapters seek to retrieve local knowledge ignored in popular Silk Road models and to show the potential of frontier-zone research for understanding the Afro-Eurasian region as a connected space.

Author : Jacques A. Bromberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000404449

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Global Classics by Jacques A. Bromberg Pdf

What makes Classics "global", and what does it mean to study the ancient world "globally"? How can the study of antiquity contribute to our understanding of pressing global issues? Global Classics addresses these questions by pursuing a transdisciplinary dialogue between Classics and Global Studies. Authoritative and engaging, this book provides the first field-wide synthesis of the recent "global turn" in Classics as well as a comprehensive overview of an emerging field in ancient studies. Through focused readings of ancient sources and modern scholarship, the author introduces readers to three key paradigms that are essential to research and teaching in global antiquities: transborder, transhistorical, and transdisciplinary. Global Classics will appeal to educators, students, and scholars interested in the application of globalization theories and paradigms in ancient studies, in globalizing their teaching and research, and in approaches to contemporary global issues through the study of the remote past.

Author : David W. Del Testa,Florence Lemoine,John Strickland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN : 1317469763

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Global History by David W. Del Testa,Florence Lemoine,John Strickland Pdf

Author : Justin Jennings
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139492928

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Globalizations and the Ancient World by Justin Jennings Pdf

In this book, Justin Jennings argues that globalization is not just a phenomenon limited to modern times. Instead he contends that the globalization of today is just the latest in a series of globalizing movements in human history. Using the Uruk, Mississippian, and Wari civilizations as case studies, Jennings examines how the growth of the world's first great cities radically transformed their respective areas. The cities required unprecedented exchange networks, creating long-distance flows of ideas, people, and goods. These flows created cascades of interregional interaction that eroded local behavioral norms and social structures. New, hybrid cultures emerged within these globalized regions. Although these networks did not span the whole globe, people in these areas developed globalized cultures as they interacted with one another. Jennings explores how understanding globalization as a recurring event can help in the understanding of both the past and the present.

Author : Alain Touwaide
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350259287

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Post-Classical Era by Alain Touwaide Pdf

A Cultural History of Plants in the Post-Classical Era covers the period from 500 to 1400, ranging across northern and central Europe to the Mediterranean, and from the Byzantine and Arabic Empires to the Persian World, India, and China. This was an age of empires and fluctuating borders, presenting a changing mosaic of environments, populations, and cultural practices. Many of the ancient uses and meanings of plants were preserved, but these were overlaid with new developments in agriculture, landscapes, medicine, eating habits, and art. The six-volume set of the Cultural History of Plants presents the first comprehensive history of the uses and meanings of plants from prehistory to today. The themes covered in each volume are plants as staple foods; plants as luxury foods; trade and exploration; plant technology and science; plants and medicine; plants in culture; plants as natural ornaments; the representation of plants. Alain Touwaide is Scientific Director at the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions, Washington, D.C., USA. A Cultural History of Plants in the Post-Classical Era is the second volume in the six-volume set, A Cultural History of Plants, also available online as part of Bloomsbury Cultural History, a fully-searchable digital library (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com). General Editors: Annette Giesecke, University of Delaware, USA, and David Mabberley, University of Oxford, UK.

Author : Dirk Hoerder,Christiane Harzig,Adrian Shubert
Publisher : New York : Berghahn Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111848557

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The Historical Practice of Diversity by Dirk Hoerder,Christiane Harzig,Adrian Shubert Pdf

While multicultural composition of nations has become a catchword in public debates, few educators, not to speak of the general public, realize that cultural interaction was the rule throughout history. Starting with the Islam-Christian-Jewish Mediterranean world of the early modern period, this volume moves to the empires of the 18th and 19th centuries and the African Diaspora of the Black Atlantic. It ends with questioning assumptions about citizenship and underlying homogeneous "received" cultures through the analysis of the changes in various literatures. This volume clearly shows that the life-worlds of settled as well as migrant populations in the past were characterized by cultural change and exchange whether conflictual or peaceful. Societies reflected on such change in their literatures as well as in their concepts of citizenship. Dirk Hoerder teaches history at the University of Bremen and has taught at universities in Northamerica. He has completed a survey of worldwide migrations from the 11th to 20th century. Christiane Harzig is Assistant Professor at Bremen University where she teaches North American History and published widely on migration in Europe and North America. Adrian Shubert is Professor and Chair of History at York University. In 1997-1998 he was a Guggenheim Fellow, and in 1999 he was invested as Commander of the Order of Civil Merit by King Juan Carlos I of Spain.

Author : Madeleine Herren,Martin Rüesch,Christiane Sibille
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9783642191961

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Transcultural History by Madeleine Herren,Martin Rüesch,Christiane Sibille Pdf

For the 21st century, the often-quoted citation ‘past is prologue’ reads the other way around: The global present lacks a historical narrative for the global past. Focussing on a transcultural history, this book questions the territoriality of historical concepts and offers a narrative, which aims to overcome cultural essentialism by focussing on crossing borders of all kinds. Transcultural History reflects critically on the way history is constructed, asking who formed history in the past and who succeeded in shaping what we call the master narrative. Although trained European historians, the authors aim to present a useful approach to global history, showing first of all how a Eurocentric but universal historiography removed or essentialised certain topics in Asian history. As an empirical discipline, history is based on source material, analysed according to rules resulting from a strong methodological background. This book accesses the global past after World War I, looking at the well known stage of the Paris Peace Conferences, observing the multiplication of new borders and the variety of transgressing institutions, concepts, actors, men and women inventing themselves as global subjects, but sharing a bitter experience with almost all local societies at this time, namely the awareness of having relatives buried in far distant places due to globalised wars.

Author : Peter L. Berger,Samuel P. Huntington
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0195168828

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Many Globalizations by Peter L. Berger,Samuel P. Huntington Pdf

'Many Globalizations' is an attempt to account for the cultural impact of globalisation in the lives of ordinary citizens from ten countries. The results of the study portray vast numbers of people intermixing participation in a global economy with indigenous values and lifestyles.

Author : Antje Flüchter,Jivanta Schöttli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319097404

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The Dynamics of Transculturality by Antje Flüchter,Jivanta Schöttli Pdf

The purpose of this volume is to identify and analyze the mechanisms and processes through which concepts and institutions of transcultural phenomena gain and are given momentum. Applied to a range of cases, including examples drawn from ancient Greece and modern India, the early modern Portuguese presence in China and politics of elite-mass dynamics in the People’s Republic of China, the book provides a template for the study of transcultural dynamics over time. Besides the epochal range, the papers in this volume illustrate the thematic diversity assembled under the umbrella of the Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context.” Drawing from both the humanities and social sciences, stretching across several world areas and centuries, the book is an interdisciplinary work, aptly reflected in the collaboration of its editors: a historian and political scientist.

Author : Oystein S. LaBianca,Sandra Arnold Scham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134946358

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Connectivity in Antiquity by Oystein S. LaBianca,Sandra Arnold Scham Pdf

Today's politicians argue that the more 'connected' societies are the less danger they pose to global stability. But is this a 'new' idea or one as old as history itself? Trade routes as far back as prehistory were responsible for the exchange of ideas as well as goods, leading to the rapid expansion of states and empires. 'Connectivity in Antiquity' brings together a team of influential scholars to examine the process of globalization in antiquity. The essays examine metallurgy, social evolution, economic growth and the impact of religious pilgrimage, and range across the eastern Mediterranean, Syria, the Transjordan, south Yemen, and Egypt. 'Connectivity in Antiquity' will be of value to all those interested in the relationship between antiquity and modern globalisation.

Author : John Tomlinson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226807681

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Globalization and Culture by John Tomlinson Pdf

Globalisation is now widely discussed, but the debates often focus on economic issues. John Tomlinson goes far beyond traditional discussions to analyse the wide ranging cultural, social and moral aspects of globalisation.