By Heinz-Gerhard Haupt,Jürgen Kocka
Since the Seventies West German historiography has been one of many major arenas of foreign comparative historical past. It has produced very important empirical reviews rather in social historical past in addition to methodological and theoretical reflections on comparative heritage. over the past two decades although, this process has felt strain from assets: cultural ancient ways, which tension microhistory and the development of cultural move at the one hand, international background and transnational techniques with emphasis on attached heritage at the different. This quantity introduces the reader to a couple of the main methodological debates and to contemporary empirical examine of German historians, who do comparative and transnational work.
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