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The result of extensive collaboration among leading scholars from
across Europe, Conceptual History in the European Space represents
a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts. It
brings together ambitious thematic studies that combine the
pioneering methods of historian Reinhart Koselleck with
contemporary insights and debates, each one illuminating a key
feature of the European conceptual landscape. With clarifying
overviews of such contested theoretical terrain as translatability,
spatiality, and center-periphery dynamics, it also provides
indispensable contextualization for an era of widespread
disenchantment with and misunderstanding of the European project.
The result of extensive collaboration among leading scholars from
across Europe, Conceptual History in the European Space represents
a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts. It
brings together ambitious thematic studies that combine the
pioneering methods of historian Reinhart Koselleck with
contemporary insights and debates, each one illuminating a key
feature of the European conceptual landscape. With clarifying
overviews of such contested theoretical terrain as translatability,
spatiality, and center-periphery dynamics, it also provides
indispensable contextualization for an era of widespread
disenchantment with and misunderstanding of the European project.
In an era defined by daily polls, institutional rankings, and other
forms of social quantification, it can be easy to forget that
comparison has a long historical lineage. Presenting a range of
multidisciplinary perspectives, this volume investigates the
concepts and practices of comparison from the early modern period
to the present. Each chapter demonstrates how comparison has helped
to drive the seemingly irresistible dynamism of the modern world,
exploring how comparatively minded assessors determine their units
of analysis, the criteria they select or ignore, and just who it is
that makes use of these comparisons-and to what ends.
In recent years political history has been rediscovered by
historians. In this volume the contributors approach the new
political history in a constructivist way, conceiving the political
as a communicative space whose boundaries are constantly
reconfigured through acts of verbal, visual, and sometimes violent
communication. Writing Political History Today is organized into
four sections, focusing on politics and the political as contested
concepts; boundary disputes between the political and other
spheres; the question of whether violence is a means, an object, or
the end of political communication; and on a future agenda for
writing political history.
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