The Historical Practice in Diversity

by Hoerder, Dirk; Harzig, Christiane; Shubert, Adrian

• ISBN13: 9781571813770
• ISBN10: 1571813772
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

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 by questioning assumptions about citizenship and underlying homogeneous "received" cultures through the analysis of the changes in various literatures.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vii
Revising the Monocultural Nation-State Paradigm: An Introduction to Transcultural Perspectives
Dirk Hoerder	1	(12)
1. Transcultural States, Nations, and People
Dirk Hoerder	13	(22)
Part I: Transcultural Pasts in the Mediterranean World and Transalpine Europe
2. A Legendary Place of Encounter: The Convivencia of Moors, Jews, and Christians in Medieval Spain
Norbert Rehrmann	35	(19)
3. Religious Communities and Ethnic Groups under Imperial Sway: Ottoman and Habsburg Lands in Comparison
Fikret Adanir	54	(33)
4. National Movements and Imperial Ethnic Hegemonies in Austria, 1867-1918
Michael John	87	(22)
Part II: Global Interconnections: Black Atlantic, Chinese Diaspora, White Empire
5. The Black Atlantic in the Construction of the "Western" World: Alternative Approaches to the "Europeanization" of the Americas
Paul E. Lovejoy	109	(25)
6. Chinese Diaspora in Occidental Societies: Canada and Europe
Peter S. Li	134	(18)
7. Labor Diasporas in Comparative Perspective: Polish and Italian Migrant Workers in the Atlantic World between the 1870s and the 1920s
Adam Walaszek	152	(25)
8. Dialectics of Empire and Complexities of Culture: British Men in India, Indian Experiences of Britain
Bernd-Peter Lange and Mala Pandurang	177	(26)
Part III: Cultural Belongings and Citizenship
9. From State Constructions to Individual Opportunities: The Historical Development of Citizenship in Europe
Christiane Harzig	203	(18)
10. Place-Sensitive Citizenship: The Canadian Citizenship Regime until 1945
Jane Jenson	221	(18)
11. The Diversification of Canadian Literature in English
Tamara Palmer Seiler	239	(27)
Selected References	266	(2)
Selected Studies	268	(6)
Index	274