Rethinking Period Boundaries : : New Approaches to Continuity and Discontinuity in Modern European History and Culture /

Rethinking Period Boundaries : : New Approaches to Continuity and Discontinuity in Modern European History and Culture / / ed. by Lucian George, Jade McGlynn.

Periodization is an ever-present feature of the grammar of history-writing. As with all grammatical rules, the order it imposes can structure but also stifle historical interpretations. Though few historians consider their period boundaries as anything more than useful guidelines, heuristic artifice...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Benedetti, Alessia,
Burek, Jan A.,
Clift, Aaron,
George, Lucian,
Lokhmatov, Aleksei,
Robertson, Ritchie,
Secklehner, Julia,
Talabér, Andrea,
HerausgeberIn:
George, Lucian ,
McGlynn, Jade,
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (V, 258 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction Periodization Challenges and Challenging
  • Periodization: Interdisciplinary Reflections
  • Chapter 1 History Seems Different from the Shop Floor. A
  • Micro-Historical Challenge to Established Caesurae in the History of
  • 20th-Century Poland: Transwar Continuities in
  • Żyrardów
  • Chapter 2 Rumours of Re-Enserfment, Anti-Feudal Identities
  • and “Folk Periodization”: The Memory of Serfdom in Early
  • 20th-Century Galicia
  • Chapter 3 L’homme au couteau entre les dents and Les
  • classes dangereuses: A “Transwar” Perspective on Continuities in French
  • Anticommunist Discourse
  • Chapter 4 Crossing Borders and Period Boundaries in Central
  • European Art: The Work of Anna Lesznai (ca. 1910–1930)
  • Chapter 5 “Periodizations” in Intellectual History: On the
  • Plurality of Continuities in the Public Debates of Post-War Poland
  • Chapter 6 A “Product of a Certain Social Milieu” and a
  • “Genius”: Analogies and Continuities between Pre- and Post-Revolutionary
  • Debates on Dante in Russia
  • Chapter 7 Continuing Traditions: National Days in
  • Czechoslovakia and Hungary during the 20th Century
  • Epilogue Some Problems in Historical and Literary
  • Periodization
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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