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Zwischen Zentren und Peripherien. Vorstellungen von Westeuropa in Expertendiskursen der Nachkriegszeit

Hertel, Patricia and Baumeister, Martin and Sala, Roberto. (2015) Zwischen Zentren und Peripherien. Vorstellungen von Westeuropa in Expertendiskursen der Nachkriegszeit. Comparativ : Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung (3). pp. 7-17.

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Abstract

Since the so-called “spatial turn”, historians have been intensively dealing with concepts of space and macro-regions. While Eastern Europe has received considerable attention, fewer studies have examined Western Europe and its heterogeneities during the Cold War era, especially beyond the examples of Great Britain, France, or Germany. The current issue analyses the internal differences in Western Europe from the 1940s until the end of the 1970s. It explores in particular the contrast between the geopolitical discourse of a homogeneous “Western bloc” and competing concepts that stressed the internal differences between the countries and regions considered to belong to the geopolitical “West”, such as the idea of industrialized “Northern” and agrarian “Southern” countries and regions. By focusing on the role of experts in national and transnational spheres, their discourses, as well as approaches to economic, political, and cultural differences, it demonstrates, via implicit and explicit concepts of a “North” and a “South”, how the idea of the “West” was negotiated and discussed.
Faculties and Departments:04 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > Departement Geschichte > Bereich Neuere und Neueste Geschichte > Neuere Allgemeine Geschichte (Lengwiler)
UniBasel Contributors:Hertel, Patricia and Sala, Roberto
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Leipziger Universitätsverlag
ISSN:0940-3566
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
Language:German
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