| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 207 pages) |
| Contents |
Comparative history, cross-national history, transnational history--definitions / Deborah Cohen and Maura O'Connor -- Comparing and generalizing : why all history is comparative, yet no history is sociology / Peter Baldwin -- Comparative history : methods, aims, problems / Heinz-Gerhard Haupt and Jürgen Kocka -- Forms of comparison / Nancy L. Green -- Comparative history : buyer beware / Deborah Cohen -- Across battle fronts : gender and the comparative cultural history of modern European war / Susan R. Grayzel -- Comparative history and women's history : explaining convergence and divergence / Susan Pedersen -- The nation and the comparative imagination / Glenda Sluga -- Comparative and cross-national history : approaches, differences, problems / Michael Miller -- Cross-national travelers : rethinking comparisons and representations / Maura O'Connor -- The modernization of the European periphery ; Ireland, Poland, and the two Sicilies, 1820-1870 : parallel and connected, distinct and comparable / Marta Petrusewicz -- Is there a pre-history of globalization? / David Armitage |
| Summary |
This volume assesses the gains, but also the perils and obstacles, of research that traverses national boundaries |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-197) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
History -- Methodology.
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HISTORY.
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Historiography
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History -- Methodology
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Historiography
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| Subject |
Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cohen, Deborah, 1968-
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O'Connor, Maura, 1957-
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| ISBN |
0203312341 |
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9780203312346 |
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0415944422 |
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9780415944427 |
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0415944430 |
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9780415944434 |
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