The Rise of Comparative History / / ed. by Constantin Iordachi, Péter Apor, Balázs Trencsényi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2021
• HerausgeberIn: Apor, Péter,; Iordachi, Constantin,; Trencsényi, Balázs,
• MitwirkendeR: Bloch, Marc,; Breysig, Kurt,; Brătianu, Gheorghe I.,; Budimir, Milan,; Cvijić, Jovan,; Davillé, Louis,; Hajnal, István,; Halecki, Oskar,; Handelsman, Marceli,; Hintze, Otto,; Iorga, Nicolae,; Mitrany, David,; Papacostea, Victor,; Pirenne, Henri,; Rutkowski, Jan,; Seignobos, Charles,; Skok, Petar,; Sée, Henri,; Trencsényi, Balázs,; Valjavec, Fritz,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (418 p.)

This book—the first of a three-volume overview of comparative and transnational historiography in Europe—focuses on the complex engagement of various comparative methodological approaches with different transnational and supranational frameworks. It considers scales from universal history to meso-regional (i.e. Balkans, Central Europe, etc.) perspectives. In the form of a reader, it displays 18 historical studies written between 1900 and 1943. The collection starts with the French and German methodological discussions around the turn of the twentieth century, stemming from the effort to integrate history with other emerging social sciences on a comparative methodological basis. The volume then turns to the question of structural and institutional comparisons, revisiting various historiographical ventures that tried to sketch out a broader (regional or European-level) interpretative framework to assess the legal systems, patterns of agrarian production, and the common ethnographic and sociocultural features. In the third part, a number of texts are presented, which put forward a supra-national research framework as an antidote to national exclusivism. While in Western Europe the most obvious such framework was pan-European, in East Central Europe the agenda of comparison was linked usually to a meso-regional framework. The studies are accompanied by short contextual introductions including biographical information on the respective authors.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Comparisons, Transfers, Entanglements: A View From East Central Europe -- 1 Defining the Comparative Method -- Cultural History of the Modern Era -- Comparison and the Comparative Method, Particularly in Historical Studies -- On the Comparative Method in History -- Historical Science and Philosophy of History -- A Contribution Towards a Comparative History of European Societies -- 2 Structures and Institutions -- The Preconditions of Representative Government in the Context of World History -- The Balkan Peninsula -- The Common Character of Southeast European Institutions -- The Genesis of the Corvée System in Central Europe Since the End of the Middle Ages -- Serfdom of the Glebe and Its Fiscal Regime: Romanian, Slavic, and Byzantine Comparative Historical Essay -- On The Working Group of the Historiography of Small Nations -- 3 Beyond the National Grand Narratives -- The Development of Nationalities in Central-Eastern Europe -- What Is Eastern Europe? -- An Attempt at a Comparative History of the Peoples of Europe -- Aim and Significance of Balkan Studies -- The Effect of the War in Southeastern Europe -- The Balkan Peninsula and the Question of Comparative Studies -- Southeast Europe and the Balkans -- About the editors -- Index