Edging toward Iberia / Jean Dangler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dangler, Jean, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antiquities.

Historiography.

Iberian Peninsula--Antiquities--Historiography.

Iberian Peninsula.

Antiquities--Historiography.

Europe--Iberian Peninsula.

Physical Description:

vii, 170 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2017.

Summary:

"Nonmodern Iberia was a fluid space of shifting political kingdoms and culturally diverse communities. Scholars have long used a series of obsolete investigative frameworks such as the Reconquista, along with modern ideas of nation-states, periodization, and geography that are inadequate to the study of Iberia's complex heterogeneity. In Edging Toward Iberia Jean Dangler argues that new tools and frameworks for research are needed. She proposes a combination of network theory by Manuel Castells and World-Systems Analysis as devised by Immanuel Wallerstein to show how network and system principles can be employed to conceptualize and analyze nonmodern Iberia in more comprehensive ways. Network principles are applied to the well-known themes of medieval trade and travel, along with the socioeconomic conditions of feudalism, slavery, and poverty to demonstrate how questions of power and temporal-historical change may be addressed through system tenets. Edging Toward Iberia challenges current historical and literary research methods and brings a fresh perspective on the examination of politics, identity, and culture."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Part one. Fundamental problems; models and methods

Periodization and geography

Network theory and world-systems analysis

Part two. Application of methodology: trade, travel, and socio-economic conditions

The Islamicate trade network

Non-modern Iberian travel and the Islamicate travel network

Feudalism, "slavery," and poverty

Part three. New themes: politics, identity and culture

Politics

Identity and culture

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-159) and index.

ISBN:

9781487501235

1487501234

OCLC:

973044113