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Periphery, Centre, Mass: Alternative Histories of Europe’s Role in Globalization

In: Europe and Globalization

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  • David Sylvan

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Historical studies of globalization treat it as a locationally ambiguous concept. On the one hand, the phenomenon is understood as precisely not centred around a particular place, such as Europe, or, now, the United States; rather, the term denotes a ‘new economic structure’ in which ‘distinct national economies are subsumed and rearticulated into the system by international processes and transactions’ (Hirst and Thompson 1999:7,10). On this reading, if globalization is anywhere, it is worldwide, even if certain places have not yet succumbed. To study the history of globalization, or whether there is a new sort of globalization, thus involves not so much looking backward at a certain country or region as it does looking into locationally disparate ‘processes’ and ‘transactions’.

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  • David Sylvan, 2002. "Periphery, Centre, Mass: Alternative Histories of Europe’s Role in Globalization," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Henryk Kierzkowski (ed.), Europe and Globalization, chapter 14, pages 302-318, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-4039-3767-4_15
    DOI: 10.1057/9781403937674_15
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