Across cultural borders : historiography in global perspective

Across cultural borders : historiography in global perspective / edited by Eckhardt Fuchs and Benedikt Stuchtey.

This ambitious work offers the first comprehensive transcultural history of historiography. The contributors transcend a Eurocentric approach not only in terms of the individual historiographies they assess but also in the methodologies they use for comparative analysis. Moving beyond the traditiona...

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Other Authors: Fuchs, Eckhardt, 1961-, Stuchtey, Benedikt
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2002]
Subjects:
Historiography.
Nationalism and historiography.
Acculturation.
Culture conflict.
History > Philosophy.
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Historicism.
Eurocentrism.
historiography.
historicism (theory)
HISTORY > Study & Teaching.
Acculturation
Culture conflict
Eurocentrism
Historicism
Historiography
History > Philosophy
Nationalism and historiography
Social sciences > Philosophy
Kulturübertragung
Theorie
Geschichtsschreibung
Kulturaustausch
Geschiedschrijving.
Eurocentrisme.
Interculturele vergelijking.
Historiografia.
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Table of Contents:
  • The authenticity of a copy: problems of nineteenth-century Spanish-American historiography / Jochen Meissner
  • In search of lost identity: South Africa between great trek and colonial nationalism, 1830-1910 / Benedikt Stuchtey
  • India's connection to history: the discipline and the relation between center and periphery / Michael Gottlob
  • Historiography on a "continent without history": anglophone West Africa, 1880s-1940s / Andreas Eckert
  • Alternative national histories in Japan: Yamaji Aizan and academic historiography / Stefan Tanaka
  • German historicism and scientific history in China, 1900-1940 / Q. Edward Wang
  • Transfer and interaction: France and francophone African historiography / Matthias Middell.
  • The historical discipline in the United States: following the German model? / Gabriele Lingelbach
  • The politics of the republic of learning: international scientific congresses in Europe, the Pacific Rim, and Latin America / Eckhardt Fuchs
  • History without a center? Reflections on Eurocentrism / Arif Dirlik
  • Africa and the construction of a grand narrative in world history / Maghan Keita
  • "Modernity" and "Asia" in the study of Chinese history / Wang Hui
  • Comparing cultures in intercultural communication / Jørn Rüsen.

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