Comparative and Transnational History : : Central European Approaches and New Perspectives / / ed. by Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, Jürgen Kocka.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Conrad, Sebastian,; Eckert, Andreas,; Haupt, Heinz Gerhard,; Hoerder, Dirk,; Juneja, Monica,; Kaelble, Hartmut,; Kocka, Jürgen,; Langewiesche, Dieter,; Osterhammel, Jürgen,; Pernau, Margrit,; Randeria, Shalini,; Requate, Jörg,; Ther, Philipp,; Welskopp, Thomas,
• HerausgeberIn: Haupt, Heinz-Gerhard,; Kocka, Jürgen,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; Comparison and Beyond: Traditions, Scope, and Perspectives of Comparative History --; PART I Comparative and Entangled History in Global Perspectives --; CHAPTER 1 Between Comparison and Transfers – and What Now? A French-German Debate --; CHAPTER 2 A ‘Transnational’ History of Society: Continuity or New Departure? --; CHAPTER 3 Double Marginalization: A Plea for a Transnational Perspective on German History --; CHAPTER 4 Entangled Histories of Uneven Modernities: Civil Society, Caste Councils, and Legal Pluralism in Postcolonial India --; CHAPTER 5 Lost in Translation? Transcending Boundaries in Comparative History --; PART II Transnationalization and Issues in European History --; CHAPTER 6 The Nation as a Developing Resource Community: A Generalizing Comparison --; CHAPTER 7 Birds of a Feather A Comparative History of German and US Labor in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries --; CHAPTER 8 Visions of the Future: GDR, CSSR, and the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1960s --; CHAPTER 9 Comparisons, Cultural Transfers, and the Study of Networks Toward a Transnational History of Europe --; CHAPTER 10 Germany and Africa in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: An Entangled History --; CHAPTER 11 Losing National Identity or Gaining Transcultural Competence: Changing Approaches in Migration History --; CONTRIBUTORS --; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781845458034; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9781845458034
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, Jürgen Kocka.

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.