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The Historical Practice of Diversity
eBook - Transcultural Interactions from the Early Modern Mediterranean to the Postcolonial World
ISBN/EAN: 9781782387183
Umbreit-Nr.: 2285601
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 292 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 01.09.2003
Auflage: 1/2003
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p> 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.</p>
- Kurztext
- 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 &quote;received&quote; 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.
- Autorenportrait
- <p><b>Christiane Harzig</b> (1952-2007) was Assistant Professor at Bremen University where she taught North American History and published widely on migration in Europe and North America.</p>