Comparison and History

Europe in Cross-National Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-415-94443-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 346 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Deborah

O'Connor, Maura

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.