title: Globalization, Communication and the Concept of Space in Global History
creator: Wenzlhuemer, Roland
subject: ddc-900
subject: 900 Geography and history
description: To study changing patterns of communication, interactions and transfers is a principal focus of global history. Such shifting connectivity patterns produce new spaces that co-exist with and are complementary to geographic space. The creation, transformation and interaction of these spaces become a central object of study in global history if we want to understand processes of globalization – such as the alleged “shrinking of the world”. At the same time, practitioners of global history constantly struggle with  spatially delineating their field of study. Therefore, global history needs a new understanding of space that provides a framework for both – looking at space as an  object of study as well as clearly identifying and demarcating the field of study. In this article, I propose an abstract, multi-layered and strictly relativistic understanding of space that will help the global historian to better master both challenges.
publisher: Center for Historical Social Research
contributor: Wenzlhuemer, Roland
date: 2010
type: Book Section
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/19668/1/Wenzlhuemer_Globalization_Communication_and_the_Concept_2010.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00019668
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-196684
identifier:   Wenzlhuemer, Roland  (2010) Globalization, Communication and the Concept of Space in Global History.  [Book Section]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/19668/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng