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“The West” : A conceptual exploration
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dc.contributor.author | Bavaj, Riccardo | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-11-23T16:00:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-11-23T16:00:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
dc.identifier | 4925222 | |
dc.identifier | 7c59ca8b-6a4b-487b-affa-0caba8efbed8 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Bavaj , R 2011 , ' “The West” : A conceptual exploration ' , Europäische Geschichte Online . | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2192-7405 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0003-3653-0225/work/33582078 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/2050 | |
dc.description | Published by the Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz 2011-11-21. When quoting this article please add the date of your last retrieval in brackets after the url. When quoting a certain passage from the article please also insert the corresponding number(s), for example 2 or 1-4. | en |
dc.description.abstract | This article explores the transformation of the directional concept "the west" into the socio-political concept "the West". From the early 19th century onward, the concept of the West became temporalized and politicized. It became a concept of the future ("Zukunftsbegriff"), acquired a polemical thrust through the polarized opposition to antonyms such as "Russia", "the East", and "the Orient", and was deployed as a tool for forging national identities. The gestation of "the West" went hand-in-hand with the gradual substitution of an east-west divide for the north-south divide that had dominated European mental maps for centuries. | |
dc.format.extent | 24 | |
dc.format.extent | 365906 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Europäische Geschichte Online | en |
dc.subject | Western Civilization | en |
dc.subject | The West | en |
dc.subject | Conceptual History | en |
dc.subject | Intellectual History | en |
dc.subject | D History (General) | en |
dc.subject | CB History of civilization | en |
dc.subject | SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities | en |
dc.subject.lcc | D1 | en |
dc.subject.lcc | CB | en |
dc.title | “The West” : A conceptual exploration | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of History | en |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.url | http://www.ieg-ego.eu/bavajr-2011-en | en |
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