The Force of Comparison : : A New Perspective on Modern European History and the Contemporary World /

The Force of Comparison : : A New Perspective on Modern European History and the Contemporary World / / Willibald Steinmetz.

In an era defined by daily polls, institutional rankings, and other forms of social quantification, it can be easy to forget that comparison has a long historical lineage. Presenting a range of multidisciplinary perspectives, this volume investigates the concepts and practices of comparison from the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
VerfasserIn:
Steinmetz, Willibald,
MitwirkendeR:
Behrisch, Lars,
Bemmann, Martin,
Chassé, Daniel Speich,
Eggers, Michael,
Epple, Angelika,
Espeland, Wendy,
Grave, Johannes,
Heintz, Bettina,
Middleton, Alex,
Moses, Julia,
Priestland, David,
Steinmetz, Willibald,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:New German Historical Perspectives ; 11
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Physical Description:1 online resource (354 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Introduction: Concepts and Practices of Comparison in Modern History
  • 1 Outlines of a Historical Epistemology of Comparison: From Descartes to the Early Nineteenth Century
  • 2 Comparative Practices and Their Implications: The Case of Comparative Viewing
  • 3 Above/Below, Better/Worse or Simply Different? Metamorphoses of Social Comparison, 1600–1900
  • 4 Empowering Comparisons? The Making of Republics in the Early Modern Period
  • 5 Comparing Europe and the Americas: The Dispute of the New World between the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
  • 6 European Colonial Empires and Victorian Imperial Exceptionalism
  • 7 Comparison and the Welfare State in Modern Europe, c. 1880–1945
  • 8 Comparison, Rivalry and Competition under Neoliberalism and State Socialism
  • 9 Comparing Economic Activities on a Global Level in the 1920s and 1930s Motives and Consequences
  • 10 In Search of a Global Centre of Calculation: The Washington Statistical Conferences of 1947
  • 11 Formalized Comparisons: Rankings and Status in Higher Education
  • 12 Good – Better – Best: Comparisons and the Power of Ranking Orders
  • Index

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