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Edging Toward Iberia
Jean Dangler (Author)
9781487501235
Hardback, published 29 May 2017
184 pages
23.6 x 16 x 1.8 cm, 0.45 kg
"Dangler’s book is animated by a thorough familiarity with a vast secondary literature. She has exhaustively mined the work of others in the field…Her reading of the secondary literature is always nuanced, generous, and polite…Dangler’s book is excellent reminder that we must approach the history of pre-modern Iberia with great caution….Let us, as Dangler proposes, see the past as the people who lived in it and wrote about it did."
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.
Acknowledgments I. Part One: Fundamental Problems; Models and Methods Chapter One: Fundamental Problems: Periodization and Geography II. Part Two: Application of Methodology: Trade, Travel, and Socioeconomic Conditions Chapter Three: The Islamicate Trade Network III. Part Three: New Themes: Politics; Identity and Culture Chapter Six: Politics Epilogue
Introduction
Chapter Two: Models and Methods: Network Theory and World-Systems Analysis
Chapter Four: Nonmodern Iberian Travel and the Islamicate Travel Network
Chapter Five: Socioeconomic Conditions: Feudalism, "Slavery," and Poverty
Chapter Seven: Identity and Culture
Bibliography
Index