"This edited collection addresses the problem of how the creation of novel spaces of governance relates to imaginaries of connectivity in time. While connectivity seems almost ubiquitous today, it has been imagined and practiced in various ways and to varying political effects in different historical and geographical contexts"--.

• Imaginaries of Connectivity
  • Contents
  • List of Images
  • Series Editor’s Note
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Novelty and the Creation of the New World in Sixteenth-Century Spain
  • Chapter 2 Faciality and the Digital Politics of Identity: At Face Value
  • Chapter 3 After Ports Were Linked: Paradoxes of Transpacific Connectivity in the Nineteenth Century
  • Chapter 4 Zones at Sea and the Properties of Connectivity: (A)roundness, (Imm)unity and Liquidity
  • Chapter 5 From Tian Xia to Sovereignty: The Shift of the Chinese Imaginary of Connectivity in the Nineteenth Century
  • Chapter 6 ‘Making up Germans’: Colonialism, Cartography and Imaginaries of ‘Germandom’
  • Chapter 7 Friedrich’s ‘Germany’: Landscape Painting as Imaginary and Experience of Connectivity
  • Chapter 8 Cultivating Disconnection: Imaginaries of Rurality in the Catalan Pyrenees
  • Chapter 9 Organisms, Nodes and Networks
  • Chapter 10 Conclusions
  • Epilogue Only Connect
  • Index
  • About the Editors and Contributors