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Thomas T. Allsen

Bio: Thomas T. Allsen is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Appropriation & Apportionment. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 73 citations.

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11 Nov 2004
TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace the Turkic peoples' trajectory from steppe, to empire, to nation-state, to global diaspora, and illuminate the projection of Turkic identity across space and time and the profound transformations marked successively by the Turks' entry into Islam and into modernity.
Abstract: Beginning in Inner Asia two thousand years ago, the Turks have migrated and expanded to form today's Turkish Republic, five post-Soviet republics, other societies across Eurasia, and a global diaspora. For the first time in a single, accessible volume, this book traces the Turkic peoples' trajectory from steppe, to empire, to nation-state. Cultural, economic, social, and political history unite in these pages to illuminate the projection of Turkic identity across space and time and the profound transformations marked successively by the Turks' entry into Islam and into modernity.

163 citations

Book
17 Feb 2010
TL;DR: The Pilgrim Art as discussed by the authors explores the remarkable cultural influence of Chinese porcelain around the globe, showing how it became a vehicle for the transmission and assimilation of artistic symbols, themes, and designs across vast distances.
Abstract: Illuminating one thousand years of history, "The Pilgrim Art" explores the remarkable cultural influence of Chinese porcelain around the globe. Cobalt ore was shipped from Persia to China in the fourteenth century, where it was used to decorate porcelain for Muslims in Southeast Asia, India, Persia, and Iraq. Spanish galleons delivered porcelain to Peru and Mexico while aristocrats in Europe ordered tableware from Canton. The book tells the fascinating story of how porcelain became a vehicle for the transmission and assimilation of artistic symbols, themes, and designs across vast distances - from Japan and Java to Egypt and England. It not only illustrates how porcelain influenced local artistic traditions, but also shows how it became deeply intertwined with religion, economics, politics, and social identity. Bringing together many strands of history in an engaging narrative studded with fascinating vignettes, this is a history of cross-cultural exchange focused on an exceptional commodity that illuminates the emergence of what is arguably the first genuinely global culture.

116 citations

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29 Oct 2009
TL;DR: The Histoire Globale as discussed by the authors is an ouvrage of anthropologists, economistes, politologues, sociologues and historians for the history of the world.
Abstract: En quoi l'actuel renouveau de l'Asie plonge-t-il ses racines dans une " longue duree " globale ? Quelle est la nature des changements structurels accompagnant la croissance demographique, le developpement de l'Etat et du commerce, l'accumulation localisee des richesses et du savoir ? Comment rendre intelligibles une expansion geographique des flux d'echange et le deploiement parfois concomitant du capitalisme a l'echelle nationale, puis mondiale ? Pour la premiere fois en France, un ouvrage reunit anthropologues, economistes, politologues, sociologues et historiens pour repondre a ces questions et esquisser les grandes lignes d'un nouveau programme de recherche : l'Histoire Globale. Celle-ci recouvre d'abord une analyse du role crucial du monde non europeen dans l'histoire de l'humanite pour sortir enfin d'une demarche trop eurocentree. Elle constitue ensuite un profond renouvellement de l'analyse en termes de systeme-monde, au-dela des œuvres incontournables de Braudel et de Wallerstein. Elle inclut enfin l'analyse comparative des processus de mondialisation. Le pari de cet ouvrage est de presenter l'histoire Globale a partir de textes classiques ou inedits de quelques-uns de ses auteurs les plus marquants. Un prologue propose une synthese de ses problematiques et recherches les plus caracteristiques, en soulignant leurs enjeux epistemologiques pour les sciences sociales. Les contributions de Beaujard, Bentley, Goody, Chase-Dunn et Hall eclairent les processus pluriseculaires d'integration intercontinentale ; celles d'Aglietta, Arrighi et Silver, Gills et Denemark, Wallerstein abordent la naissance, le developpement et les crises du capitalisme global ; les ecrits de Berger, Goldstone, Norel, Pomeranz, Wong analysent les liens entre les episodes de croissance et de creativite culturelle recurrents (ou " efflorescences "), et les processus de mondialisation.

75 citations

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TL;DR: A persistent and widespread misconception holds that the peoples of the world began to interact intensively only after 1492 as mentioned in this paper, which has hindered historians from recognizing the significance of cross-cultural interactions in earlier times, and the powerful influence of national states, which has discouraged historians from examining interactions between societies.
Abstract: Scholars such as Marshall G. S. Hodgson and William H. McNeill have long emphasized the importance of cross-cultural interactions throughout world history from ancient times to the present. Yet a persistent and widespread misconception holds that the peoples of the world began to interact intensively only after 1492. This misunderstanding reflects both "modernocentrism," an enchantment with the modern world that has hindered historians from recognizing the significance of cross-cultural interactions in earlier times, and the powerful influence of national states, which has discouraged historians from examining interactions between societies. Recent scholarship on commercial, biological, and cultural exchanges suggests, however, that during the millennium from 500 to 1500 C.E., cross-cultural interactions fostered the integration of societies throughout the Eastern Hemisphere.

67 citations

BookDOI
01 Jan 2006

57 citations