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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463129103321

Titolo

Comparative history and the quest for transnationality : Central European approaches and new perspectives / / edited by Jürgen Kocka and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

0-85745-604-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 294 pages)

Disciplina

907.2

Soggetti

Transnationalism - Historiography

Acculturation - Historiography

Social history - Methodology

History - Methodology

History - Comparative method

Electronic books.

Germany (West) Historiography

Germany Historiography

Europe, Central Social conditions Historiography

Europe, Central Historiography

Germany Social conditions Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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 some of the major



methodological debates and to recent empirical research of German historians, who do comparative and transnational work.--publisher.