Comparative history and the quest for transnationality
Subtitle: Central European approaches and new perspectives
By: edited by Jürgen Kocka and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt.
Contributors: Kocka, Jürgen.; Haupt, Heinz-Gerhard.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781845456153
Subjects: Transnationalism -- Historiography; Acculturation -- Historiography; Social history -- Methodology; History -- Methodology; History -- Comparative method; Germany (West) -- Historiography; Germany -- Historiography; Europe, Central -- Historiography; Germany -- Social conditions -- Historiography; Europe, Central -- Social conditions -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Comparison and beyond : traditions, scope, and perspective of comparative history / Jürgen Kocka/Heinz-Gerhard Haupt; title: The debate between comparison and transfers; title: and what now? / Hartmut Kaelble; title: A "transnational" history of society : continuity or new departure / Jürgen Osterhammel; title: Double marginalization : a plea for a transnational perspective on German history / Sebastian Conrad; title: Entangled histories of uneven modernities : civil society, caste councils, and legal pluralism in postcolonial India / Shalini Randeria; title: Lost in translation? Transcending boundaries in comparative history / M. Juneja, M. Pernau; title: The nation as a developing resource community : a generalizing comparison / Dieter Langewiesche; title: Birds of a feather : a comparative history of German and U.S. labour in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Thomas Welskopp; title: Common challenges, common solutions? Visions of the future during the 1960s : GDR, CSSR, and the Federal Republic of Germany in comparative perspective / Jürg Requate; title: Comparisons, cultural transfers, and the study of networks : towards a transnational history of Europe / Philipp Ther; title: Germany and Africa in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries : an entangled history? / Andreas Eckert; title: Losing national identity or gaining transcultural competence : changing approaches in migration history / Dirk Hoerder.