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CENTERS AND PERIPHERIES IN ENGLISH MAPS OF AMERICA, 1590–1685
2012
Overview
In the past few decades, historians have become interested in the relationship between centers and peripheries in the construction of early modern American empires. As described most notably by sociologist Edward Shils, “As we move from the center . . . in which authority is possessed . . . to the . . . periphery, over which authority is exercised, attachment to the central value system becomes attenuated.” In addition, “the further one moves territorially from the locus of authority, the less one appreciates authority.” Among the wide-ranging implications of these conclusions in a variety of academic disciplines, this theory
