Hi John -
As Rodney suggests, postcolonial studies would be one productive area to look - in our own field, an approach reflected (for disciplinary 'margins' in contemporary world archaeology) in the subtitle of the 1999 Funari, Jones and Hall One World Archaeology volume - 'Historical Archaeology; back from the edge'
For earlier periods, one thing to look at would be the classic 1993 paper on the status of 'peripheries' in world systems theory by the much-missed Andrew Sherratt -
Who are you calling peripheral? Dependence and independence in European prehistory. In F. Healy and C. Scarre (eds), Trade and Exchange in Prehistoric Europe, Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 245-255
DH
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