Concept information
Preferred term
metropole
Definition
- A metropole is the country at the heart of an empire: the seat of political, cultural, and economic power that stretches across geographical space to control and influence territories outside domestic boundaries. The metropole played a significant role in the development of consumer culture: it exported Western industrialization and mercantile capitalism and was also the source of modern global commodity trades. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture; Metropole]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/metropole
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