Author : Heinz-Gerhard Haupt,Jürgen Kocka
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857456038
Comparative and Transnational History by Heinz-Gerhard Haupt,Jürgen Kocka Pdf
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.