Comparative and Transnational History: Central European Approaches and New Perspectives

Comparative and Transnational History: Central European Approaches and New Perspectives
ISBN-10
0857456032
ISBN-13
9780857456038
Category
History
Pages
294
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Authors
Jürgen Kocka, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt

Description

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.

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