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.
Heinz-Gerhard Haupt is currently Professor of European History
at the European University Institute. Previously, he was at the
Universities of Bremen (1974-93), Halle (1993-98), and Bielefeld
(1998-2004). He has been a Visiting Professor at the Ecole des
Hautes Etudes, Paris, University of Lyon II, and Columbia
University and a Fellow at Princeton University. His publications
in English include The Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe 1780-1914:
Enterprise, Family and Independence (with G.Crossick, Routledge,
1995) and Europe in 1848: Revolution and Reform (edited with D.
Dowe, D. Langewiesche, J. Sperber, 2001).
Jurgen Kocka is currently Professor for the History of the
Industrial World at the Free University of Berlin, Research
Professor at the Social Science Research Center Berlin and,
regularly, a Visiting Professor at the University of California Los
Angeles. Between 1973 and 1988 he taught in the University of
Bielefeld. He has published widely in the field of modern history
of Europe. His publications in the English language include Facing
Total War. German Society 1914-1918 (Berg, 1984) and Industrial
Culture and Bourgeois Society. Business, Labor, and Bureaucracy in
Modern Germany (Berghahn, 1999)."
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