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People, nations and traditions in a comparative frame : thinking about the past with Jonathan Steinberg / edited by D'Maris Coffman, Harold James, Nicholas Di Liberto.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Steinberg, Jonathan--Criticism and interpretation.
- Steinberg, Jonathan.
- International relations--History.
- International relations.
- History.
- Historiography--History--21st century.
- Historiography.
- Military history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- London : Anthem Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Notes
- Parts One-Five
- Part One Methodological Pluralism and New Applications
- Chapter One All or Nothing: From Comparative to Transnational History
- The Challenges of Comparison
- The Case for Comparison
- Towards the Transnational?
- The 1960s in Transnational Perspective
- Chapter Two Swiss History Only as National History? How to Break out of the Cage of National Historiography
- 1. What is meant by 'Swiss history'?
- 2. Is it true that Swiss history is only pursued by Swiss, and if so, why is this the case?
- 3. Is Switzerland an exception in this regard, and if not, why not?
- 4. What is Swiss about Swiss historians?
- 5. What would have changed had more non-Swiss dealt with Switzerland?
- 6. Are national histories still needed, and if so, what should they look like?
- Chapter Three 'The Kaiser's Navy and German Society': The View from the Tattooist's Studio
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- Chapter Four The Warburgs and Yesterday's Financial Deterrent
- I
- Part Two Personal and National Character
- Chapter Five Clarendon's Exile and the Role of Personality in Historical Explanation
- Chapter Six Leslie Stephen and the Americans
- Chapter Seven From Bodyguard to General: The Strange Career of Joseph 'Sepp' Dietrich
- Chapter Eight Johnny Eyetie and the Teds: British Soldiers' Attitudes towards their Italian and German Enemies in the Second World War
- Part Three Society, Families and the Sovereign Self
- Chapter Nine The Family of Sovereigns at Modern Times
- 1. Political Anarchism and the Family
- Warren and the problem of childhood
- 2. Free Love at Modern Times
- Andrews and the moral hierarchy of love
- 3. The Family and Perfectibility
- Edger and the positive family
- Newbery and 'rational procreation'
- 4. Man as a Subject for Science
- Science, sovereignty and the family
- Chapter Ten French Family Policy and the Family of Nations in the Interwar Years
- Chapter Eleven Death of a Dream: Liberal Values and the Crisis of the British Welfare State, 1945-2014
- Notes
- Part Four History Out of Sync: Modernity and Tradition
- Chapter Twelve A Risorgimento Influence on the Modern European Image of St Francis of Assisi
- Chapter Thirteen Hometown Hamburg: Constructing the Non- Liberal and Non-Modern Foundations of the Weimar Republic in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Hamburg: A City of Two Social Orders
- Hamburg: The Capital of German Handwerk
- Hamburg: A City of Disturbers
- Hamburg in the Weimar Republic: Betwixt and Between
- Notes
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed March 29, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781785277696
- 1785277693
- 9781785277689
- 1785277685
- Publisher Number:
- 40030614074
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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