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1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Figures XI
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: A World in Decline: Anxieties about Social and Political Order
7. Introduction 12
8. Chapter 1. Order and Discipline: Visions and Anxieties 15
9. Chapter 2. Gute Policey: Saving or Disrupting the Order? 28
10. Chapter 3. Defending Order and Discipline in Dyl Ulenspiegel 42
11. Chapter 4. A Dystopian Topsy-Turvy World 66
12. Chapter 5. Innovation and Progress as Agents of Decline 77
13. Chapter 6. History as Decline and Brant’s Vision of the End of History 84
14. Chapter 7. The Communal Order and the Problem of Self-Interest 95
15. Chapter 8. The Decline of the Community: Common Good and Self-Interest as Literary Metaphors 107
16. Part II: Staying Home: Resistance to Expanding Spatial Horizons
17. Introduction 126
18. Chapter 9. Spatial Expansion and Its Narratives 129
19. Chapter 10. From Chronicle to Cosmography (and Chorography): The Rise of Synchronic Narratives of the World 136
20. Chapter 11. Ptolemy’s Grid and the New Cosmography in Germany: Waldseemüller and His Legacy 149
21. Chapter 12. Emancipation from Ancient Concepts of Space 172
22. Chapter 13. Spatial Discoveries: Anxieties and Rejection in Brant’s Writings 181
23. Chapter 14. Spatial Anxieties in Literary Texts of the Early Sixteenth Century 201
24. Chapter 15. America and the Epistemological Crisis of Space: An Afterthought 213
25. Part III: Globalization and the Nationalistic Backlash in Germany
26. Chapter 16. Theory of Early Modern Globalization 233
27. Chapter 17. The Emerging Global Trade from a German Perspective 243
28. Chapter 18. The Backlash Against the New Economy 256
29. Chapter 19. Macro-Economic Critique of the Emerging Global Trade 273
30. Chapter 20. Nationalistic and Xenophobic Responses to Foreign Influences 289
31. Chapter 21. The Global Spice Trade: Breaching Traditional Values and Violating the Divine Order 308
32. Chapter 22. The Backlash Against Globalization: The Rhetoric of Moral Decline and the Nostalgia Project 328
33. Conclusion 339
34. Bibliography 359
35. Index 385