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The Nation State and Beyond: Governing Globalization Processes in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

By Roland Wenzlhuemer (auth.) , Roland Wenzlhuemer (eds.) , Isabella Löhr

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2013
ISBN
978-3-642-32933-3, 978-3-642-32934-0
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-32934-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1777054 bytes)
Series
Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
Edition
1
Pages
260\262
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-10-26 03:27:13
Cultural Studies; Political Sciencegeneral; International Economics

Description

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.

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