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Comparative history and the quest for transnationality : Central European approaches and new perspectives / edited by Jürgen Kocka and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transnationalism--Historiography.
- Transnationalism.
- Acculturation--Historiography.
- Acculturation.
- Social history--Methodology.
- Social history.
- History--Methodology.
- History.
- History--Comparative method.
- Germany (West)--Historiography.
- Germany (West).
- Germany--Historiography.
- Germany.
- Europe, Central--Historiography.
- Europe, Central.
- Germany--Social conditions--Historiography.
- Europe, Central--Social conditions--Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (302 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Since the 1970s West German historiography has been one of the main arenas of international comparative history. It has produced important empirical studies particularly in social history as well as methodological and theoretical reflections on comparative history. During the last twenty years however, this approach has felt pressure from two sources: cultural historical approaches, which stress microhistory and the construction of cultural transfer on the one hand, global history and transnational approaches with emphasis on connected history on the other. This volume introduces the reader to
- Contents:
- Comparison and beyond : traditions, scope, and perspective of comparative history / Jürgen Kocka/Heinz-Gerhard Haupt
- The debate between comparison and transfers
- and what now? / Hartmut Kaelble
- A "transnational" history of society : continuity or new departure / Jürgen Osterhammel
- Double marginalization : a plea for a transnational perspective on German history / Sebastian Conrad
- Entangled histories of uneven modernities : civil society, caste councils, and legal pluralism in postcolonial India / Shalini Randeria
- Lost in translation? Transcending boundaries in comparative history / M. Juneja, M. Pernau
- The nation as a developing resource community : a generalizing comparison / Dieter Langewiesche
- Birds of a feather : a comparative history of German and U.S. labour in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Thomas Welskopp
- Common challenges, common solutions? Visions of the future during the 1960s : GDR, CSSR, and the Federal Republic of Germany in comparative perspective / Jürg Requate
- Comparisons, cultural transfers, and the study of networks : towards a transnational history of Europe / Philipp Ther
- Germany and Africa in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries : an entangled history? / Andreas Eckert
- Losing national identity or gaining transcultural competence : changing approaches in migration history / Dirk Hoerder.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781845458034
- 1845458036
- OCLC:
- 645100630
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