The Rise of Comparative History

The Rise of Comparative History - Perspectives on Comparative and Transnational History in East Central Europe and Beyond

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9789633863619
Publisher: Central European University Press
Imprint: Central European University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 943.70072
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 420
Weight: 754g
Height: 533mm
Width: 158mm
Spine width: 30mm