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.