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Title The historical practice of diversity : transcultural interactions from the early modern Mediterranean to the postcolonial world / edited by Dirk Hoerder ; with Christiane Harzig and Adrian Shubert
Published New York : Berghahn Books, [2003]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 278 pages)
Contents Revising the monocultural nation-state paradigm : an introduction to transcultural perspectives / Dirk Hoerder -- Transcultural states, nations, and people / Dirk Hoerder -- A legendary place of encounter : the Convivencia of Moors, Jews, and Christians in medieval Spain / Norbert Rehrmann -- Religious communities and ethnic groups under imperial sway : Ottoman and Habsburg lands in comparison / Fikret Adanir -- National movements and imperial ethnic hegemonies in Austria, 1867-1918 / Michael John -- The Black Atlantic in the construction of the "Western" world : alternative approaches to the "Europeanization" of the Americas / Paul E. Lovejoy -- Chinese diaspora in occidental societies : Canada and Europe / Peter S. Li -- Labor diasporas in comparative perspective : Polish and Italian migrant workers in the Atlantic world between the 1870s and the 1920s / Adam Walaszek -- Dialectics of empire and complexities of culture : British men in India, Indian experiences of Britain / Bernd-Peter Lange and Mala Pandurang -- From state constructions to individual opportunities : the historical development of citizenship in Europe / Christiane Harzig -- Place-sensitive citizenship : the Canadian citizenship regime until 1945 / Jane Jenson -- The diversification of Canadian literature in English / Tamara Palmer Seiler
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 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
Analysis diversity
European history
Canadian history
National consciousness
Multicultural lives
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Multiculturalism.
Multiculturalism -- Cross-cultural studies
Group identity.
Citizenship.
Ethnicity.
Racism.
Cultural pluralism.
Globalization.
Social Identification
Cultural Diversity
multiculturalism.
group identity.
ethnicity.
globalism.
citizenship.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Citizenship
Cultural pluralism
Ethnicity
Globalization
Group identity
Multiculturalism
Racism
Interkulturalität
Culturele identiteit.
Multiculturele samenlevingen.
Burgerschap.
Etnisch bewustzijn.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Hoerder, Dirk, editor.
Harzig, Christiane, editor.
Shubert, Adrian, 1953- editor.
ISBN 9781782387183
1782387188