Comparison and History (eBook, PDF)

Europe in Cross-National Perspective
Redaktion: Cohen, Deborah; O'Connor, Maura

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Produktbeschreibung

Historians today like to preach the virtues of comparison and cross-national work. In the last decade, cross-national histories have prospered, yielding important work in the subjects as diverse as the transatlantic trade in slaves and the cultures of celebrity. In the meantime, comparative history has also enjoyed a renaissance, but what is largely missing in the rush beyond the nation is any sense of how to tackle this research.
This volume brings together scholars who have worked either cross-nationally or comparatively to reflect upon their own research. In essays that engage practical, methodological, and theoretical questions, these contributors assess the gains--but also the obstacles and perils--of research that traverses national boundaries. Drawn from the subject-areas that have attracted the most comparative and cross-national attention: war, welfare, labor, nation, immigration, and gender.
Taken together, these essays provide the first critical analysis of the cross-national turn in European history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135945169
• Artikelnr.: 43074146

Autorenporträt

Deborah Cohen is an Associate Professor of History at Brown University. Maura O'Connor is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Deborah Cohen and Maura O'Connor
Comparative History, Cross
National History, Transnational History
Definitions 1. Peter Baldwin
Comparing and Generalizing: Why All History is Comparative, Yet No History is Sociology 2. Heinz
Gerhard Haupt and Jürgen Kocka
Comparative History: Methods, Aims, Problems 3. Nancy L. Green
Forms of Comparison 4. Deborah Cohen
Comparative History: Buyer Beware 5. Susan R. Grayzel
Across Battle Fronts: Gender and the Comparative Cultural History of Modern European War 6. Susan Pedersen
Comparative History and Women's History: Explaining Convergence and Divergence 7. Glenda Sluga
The Nation and the Comparative Imagination 8. Michael Miller
Comparative and Cross
National History: Approaches, Differences, Problems 9. Maura O'Connor
Cross
National Travellers: Rethinking Comparisons and Representations 10. Marta Petrusewicz The Modernization of the European Periphery, Or Ireland, Poland and the Two Sicilies, 1820
1870: Parallel and Connected, Distinct and Comparable 11. David Armitage
Is there a Pre
History of Globalization? Suggestions for further reading Notes on Contributors Index