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Introduction XVII
versity) reveals how the newly explored Asian territories were depicted and interpreted
in 16th century Portuguese historiography. And in the last study of part three Gábor
Demeter (doctoral student, University of Debrecen) summarizes the debates about
domestic and foreign politics in the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 20th
century from a historiographical point of view.
The concluding section is about the relationship of Europe and the American continent
and comprised four studies, two about Europe and Latin America, and two about Europe
and North America. In respect of Latin America, Mary N. Harris (Staff member
National University of Ireland, Galway) surveys the perception of Irish-Latin American
contacts in Irish historiography, while Maria Alexandra Gago da Câmara (staff member,
Aberta University) explores the mutual impact of baroque art in Portugal and Brazil.
Regarding the historical contacts of Europe and North America István Kornél Vida
(doctoral student, University of Debrecen) provides an overview of the historiography
of Hungarian emigration to the United States of America after the Hungarian Revolution
and War for Independence in 1848-1849, and Csaba Lévai (staff member, University
of Debrecen) summarizes the evaluation of the American Revolution in Hungarian
historiography during the decades after World War II.
Due to the very different special fields of the members of our workgroup this volume
provides only a first approach to the extremely complex historical interdependence of
Europe and the “world outside Europe” and the ways that historiography in different
contexts has approached the issue. Nevertheless, we hope that our volume genuinely
represents some recent trends of historiography concerning the relationship of Europe
and the rest of the world, and serves the fundamental aim of our workgroup: the promotion
of the mutual understanding of “otherness” from a historical perspective.
Csaba Lévai
University of Debrecen
Note
1
Cabeza De Vaca is quoted by A. Taylor, American Colonies, New York 2001, p. 70.