{"product_id":"edging-toward-iberia-hardback-9781487501235","title":"Edging Toward Iberia (Hardback) 9781487501235","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEdging Toward Iberia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJean Dangler (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487501235\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 May 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e184 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 1.8 cm, 0.45 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dangler\u0026amp;#x2019;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\u0026amp;#x2019;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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Teofilo F. Ruiz, University of California, LA (Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Vol 43 no 1)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNonmodern 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\u0026amp;#x2019;s complex heterogeneity. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eEdging Toward Iberia\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eEdging Toward Iberia\u003c\/i\u003e challenges current historical and literary research methods and brings a fresh perspective on the examination of politics, identity, and culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI. Part One: Fundamental Problems; Models and Methods\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter One: Fundamental Problems: Periodization and Geography \u003cbr\u003eChapter Two: Models and Methods: Network Theory and World-Systems Analysis \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eII. Part Two: Application of Methodology: Trade, Travel, and Socioeconomic Conditions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Three: The Islamicate Trade Network \u003cbr\u003eChapter Four: Nonmodern Iberian Travel and the Islamicate Travel Network\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five: Socioeconomic Conditions: Feudalism, \"Slavery,\" and Poverty\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIII. Part Three: New Themes: Politics; Identity and Culture\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Six: Politics \u003cbr\u003eChapter Seven: Identity and Culture \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue \u003cbr\u003eBibliography \u003cbr\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595449266456,"sku":"9781487501235","price":43.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/edging-toward-iberia-hardback-9781487501235","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}