TY  - GEN
AV  - public
CY  - Köln
TI  - Globalization, Communication and the Concept of Space in Global History
Y1  - 2010///
ID  - heidok19668
KW  - space
KW  -  globalization
KW  -  communication
KW  -  global history
KW  -  telecommunication
KW  -  telegraphy
SP  - 19
A1  - Wenzlhuemer, Roland
EP  - 47
UR  - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/19668/
N2  - 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.
PB  - Center for Historical Social Research
ER  -