Global history has long become an established field of research. At the 11th
conference of the working group on the Early Modern Period (Historians' Association,
Germany), participants aimed at applying global-history approaches not only on
distant world regions, but especially on early modern Europe. "Europe" has
consistently been both a subject to and a concept of negotiation processes, which
hardly kept to territorial borders or clear-cut topographically or language-bounded
areas. The conference proceedings open up new views on geographical and historical
imaginations of Europe from within and without, on claims of identity and alterity
as well as on the mutability of periphery-centre relations. Moreover, they display
the wide range of - internationally well-connected - historical research on the
early modern period in Germany.