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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783654003321

Titolo

Comparison and history : Europe in cross-national perspective / / edited by Deborah Cohen & Maura O'Connor, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-94515-2

1-135-94516-0

1-280-06437-4

0-203-31234-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CohenDeborah <1968->

O'ConnorMaura <1957->

Disciplina

940/.01

Soggetti

History - Methodology

Europe 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 (p. 181-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Comparative History, Cross-National History, Transnational History--Definitions; Comparing and Generalizing: Why All History Is Comparative, Yet No History Is Sociology; Comparative History: Methods, Aims, Problems; Forms of Comparison; Comparative History: Buyer Beware; Across Battle Fronts: Gender and the Comparative Cultural History of Modern European War; Comparative History and Women's History: Explaining Convergence and Divergence; The Nation and the Comparative Imagination

Comparative and Cross-National History: Approaches, Differences, ProblemsCross-National Travelers: Rethinking Comparisons and Representations; The Modernization of the European Periphery;  Ireland, Poland, and the Two Sicilies, 1820-1870: Parallel and Connected, Distinct and Comparable; Is There a Pre-History of Globalization?; Contributors; Suggestions for Further Readings; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This volume assesses the gains, but also the perils and obstacles, of research that traverses national boundaries.