eprintid: 19668
rev_number: 26
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creators_name: Wenzlhuemer, Roland
title: Globalization, Communication and the Concept of Space in Global History
title_de: Globalisierung, Kommunikation und Raumkonzepte in der Globalgeschichte
subjects: ddc-900
divisions: i-72020
keywords: space, globalization, communication, global history, telecommunication, telegraphy
cterms_swd: Telekommunikation
cterms_swd: Globalisierung
cterms_swd: Kommunikation
abstract: 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.
date: 2010
publisher: Center for Historical Social Research
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00019668
ppn_swb: 1658804260
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-196684
language: eng
bibsort: WENZLHUEMEGLOBALIZAT2010
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Köln
pagerange: 19-47
book_title: Global Communication. Telecommunication and Global Flows of Information in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century. Special Issue of Historical Social Research
editors_name: Wenzlhuemer, Roland
citation:   Wenzlhuemer, Roland  (2010) Globalization, Communication and the Concept of Space in Global History.  [Book Section]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/19668/1/Wenzlhuemer_Globalization_Communication_and_the_Concept_2010.pdf