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Space and asymmetric difference in historical perspective : an introduction / Alex Körner -- Rethinking centre and periphery in historical analysis : land-based modernization as an alternative model from the peripheries / Marta Petrusewicz -- Europe and the concept of the margin / Jan Ifverson -- After identity : mentalities, European asymmetries and the digital turn / Joris van Eijnatten -- From the Baltic to the Pacific : trade, shipping and exploration on the shores of the Russian Empire / Michael North -- Republics of knowledge : interpreting the world from Latin America / Nicola Miller -- From Manchester and Lille to the world : nineteenth-century provincial cities conceptualize their place in the global order / Harry Stopes -- Turning constitutional history upside down : the 1820s revolutions in the Mediterranean / Jens Späth -- The cosmopolitan morphology of the national discourse : Italy as a European centre of intellectual modernity / Alessandro de Arcangelis -- 'The greatest city the world has ever seen' : London's imperial and European contexts in British public debates, 1870-1900 / Tessa Hauswedell -- Mediating hybrids : consumption and transnationality / Hermione Giffard -- Re-mapping centre and periphery : concluding thoughts / Ulrich Tiedau.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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