Explorations in comparative history
By: edited by Benjamin Z. Kedar
Publisher: Hebrew University Magnes Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jerusalem
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9789654933926
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Outlines for comparative history proposed by practicing historians / Benjamin Z. Kedar; title: Comparative history: methodology and ethos / Jürgen Kocka; title: Comparative history: the pivot of historiography / Diego Olstein; title: The scope of comparison: the Roman, Spanish and Inca empires / Sabine MacCormack; title: The meeting of worlds: did early modern expansion lead to globalization? / Tamar Herzog; title: Questions of comparability: Russian serfdom and American slavery / Michael Confino; title: Eighteenth-century globalization: renewal and reform in Islam / Nehemia Levtzion; title: The modern Japanese political system - a comparative view / S.N. Eisenstadt; title: Globalization and the welfare state / Peter Baldwin; title: The use of feudalism in comparative history / Susan Reynolds; title: Teaching comparative history: a course on Christian, Muslim and Jewish women in medieval times / Elisheva Baumgarten, Esther Cohen and Ruth Roded