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Title Across cultural borders : historiography in global perspective / edited by Eckhardt Fuchs and Benedikt Stuchtey
Published Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2002]
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 359 pages)
Contents The authenticity of a copy: problems of nineteenth-century Spanish-American historiography / Jochen Meissner -- In search of lost identity: South Africa between great trek and colonial nationalism, 1830-1910 / Benedikt Stuchtey -- India's connection to history: the discipline and the relation between center and periphery / Michael Gottlob -- Historiography on a "continent without history": anglophone West Africa, 1880s-1940s / Andreas Eckert -- Alternative national histories in Japan: Yamaji Aizan and academic historiography / Stefan Tanaka -- German historicism and scientific history in China, 1900-1940 / Q. Edward Wang -- Transfer and interaction: France and francophone African historiography / Matthias Middell
The historical discipline in the United States: following the German model? / Gabriele Lingelbach -- The politics of the republic of learning: international scientific congresses in Europe, the Pacific Rim, and Latin America / Eckhardt Fuchs -- History without a center? Reflections on Eurocentrism / Arif Dirlik -- Africa and the construction of a grand narrative in world history / Maghan Keita -- "Modernity" and "Asia" in the study of Chinese history / Wang Hui -- Comparing cultures in intercultural communication / Jørn Rüsen
Summary This ambitious work offers the first comprehensive transcultural history of historiography. The contributors transcend a Eurocentric approach not only in terms of the individual historiographies they assess but also in the methodologies they use for comparative analysis. Moving beyond the traditional national focus of historiography, the volume offers a genuinely comparative consideration of the commonalities and differences of history writing in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Distinguishing among distinct cultural identities, the contributors consider the ways and means of intellect
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Historiography.
Nationalism and historiography.
Acculturation
Culture conflict.
History -- Philosophy.
Social sciences -- Philosophy.
Historicism.
Eurocentrism.
Historiography
Acculturation
historiography.
historicism (theory)
HISTORY -- Study & Teaching.
Acculturation
Culture conflict
Eurocentrism
Historicism
Historiography
History -- Philosophy
Nationalism and historiography
Social sciences -- Philosophy
Kulturübertragung
Theorie
Geschichtsschreibung
Kulturaustausch
Geschiedschrijving.
Eurocentrisme.
Interculturele vergelijking.
Historiografia.
Form Electronic book
Author Fuchs, Eckhardt, 1961-
Stuchtey, Benedikt
ISBN 9780742569317
0742569314