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A Global Conceptual History of Asia, 1860–1940
Author(s): Hagen Schulz-Forberg (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: October 14, 2024
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 222 pages
- ISBN-10: 1032926899
- ISBN-13: 9781032926896
Book Description
Contributors to this volume explore the changing concepts of the social and the economic during a period of fundamental change across Asia. They challenge accepted explanations of how Western knowledge spread through Asia and show how versatile Asian intellectuals were in introducing European concepts and in blending them with local traditions.
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About the Author
Hagen Schulz-Forberg is Associate Professor for Global and European History at Aarhus University. Among his recent publications are Before Integration: Human Rights and Post-war Europe (2011) and Cosmopolitanism or Ethnic Homogeneity? Roma Identity and the European Public Sphere (2010). His research interests cover the fields of European history, European integration, urban history, travel and tourism, historiography, cultural history, transnational and global history.
