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Toward a Global Community of Historians - The International Historical Congresses and the International Committee of Historical Sciences, 1898-2000 (Hardcover)
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Toward a Global Community of Historians - The International Historical Congresses and the International Committee of Historical Sciences, 1898-2000 (Hardcover)
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Globalization presents major challenges to scholars of history.
Different variants of global history and world history compete
with, and transform, more traditional approaches of national,
regional, and local scope, accompanied by new forms of
international and transcultural cooperation. However, as this book
shows, these transnational trends in the historical discipline are
not without precedent. Based on painstaking research, this volume
reconstructs the history of the International Congresses of
Historians from the first one in The Hague, 1898, to the nineteenth
in Oslo, 2000. It also tells the story of the International
Committee of the Historical Sciences, the world organization of
historians, which was founded, with much American support, in 1926
and today includes 54 national committees and 28 affiliated
international organizations from all parts of the world. Karl
Dietrich Erdmann, former president of this organization, covered
the story up to 1985. Wolfgang J. Mommsen continued it into the
twenty-first century. This book traces and analyzes the changes of
historians' problems, topics, and methods, as reflected at their
International Congresses and in the work of their international
organization. It describes the cleavages, debates, and forging of
ties among historians from different parts of the world and
ideological camps. It demonstrates how historians fought against
academic nationalism-or succumbed to its seduction. It shows how
the Cold War polarized the world of historians whereas the
International Congresses offered a platform for bridging the gap.
Since 1990, they have helped to redefine the relationship between
historians from the West and from other parts of the world. The
internationalization of the study of history is reaching a new
quality. Karl Dietrich Erdmann's book was first published in German
in 1987. It has been translated, updated, and edited for an
international audience of the twenty-first century.
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