Locating the Global: Spaces, Networks, and Interactions from the seventeenth to the twentieth century

Abstract

This volume adds to the plurality of global histories by locating the global through its articulation and manifestation within particular localities. It accomplishes this by bringing together interlinked case-studies that analyse various temporal and spatial dimensions of the global in the local and the interactions between the local and the global. The case-studies apply a spatial approach to analyse how global questions of space, movement, networks,borders and territory are worked out at a local level. The material draws on the Nordic countries, Europe, the Atlantic world, Africa, and Australia ranges from the senventeenth to the twenieth century. It is further divided into sections that address topics such as the translocality of humans and goods, local articulations of identities and globalities, parliamentarism and anti-colonialism, the organization of knowledge and the construction of spaces of representation and memory.

Biographical Note

Holger Weiss (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)

Holger Weiss is professor in general history at Åbo Akademi University, Finland (acting 2003-2011, full since 2011). His research focuses on global and Atlantic history (Entanglements and spaces in the early modern Atlantic world with a special focus on the Danish possessions on the Gold Coast and the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy in the Caribbean; international radical solidarity organizations during the Interwar period, especially the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers and the International of Seamen and Harbour Workers, West African environmental history, with a special focus on Ghana, and Islamic Studies, with a special focus on Muslims and the history of Islam in Ghana).