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Cooperation and Empire
While the study of “indigenous intermediaries” is today the focus of some of the most interesting research in the historiography of colonialism, its roots extend back to at least the 1970s. The contributions to this volume revisit Ronald E. Robinson’s theory of collaboration in a range of historical contexts by melding it with theoretical perspectives derived from postcolonial studies and transnational history. In case studies ranging globally over the course of four centuries, these essays offer nuanced explorations of the varied, complex interactions between imperial and local actors, with particular attention to those shifting and ambivalent roles that transcend simple binaries of colonizer and colonized.
Across Cultural Borders
This innovative 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 traditional national focus of historiography, the book offers a genuinely comparative consideration of the commonalities and differences in writing history. Distinguishing among distinct cultural identities, the contributors consider the ways and means of intellectual transfers and assess the strength of local historiographical traditions as they are challenged from outside. The essays explore the questio...
Geschichte des Britischen Empire
Das Britische Empire war das größte Kolonialreich der Geschichte und erstreckte sich über alle fünf Kontinente. Benedikt Stuchtey gibt einen profunden Überblick über seine 500-jährige Geschichte von der Erstbesiedlung Neufundlands 1497 bis zur Übergabe Hongkongs an China im Jahr 1997. Er schildert die Motive der kolonialen Expansion wie den Freihandel und die vermeintliche Zivilisierungsmission, die herausragende Rolle der Navy und die dunklen Seiten des Empire, deren Folgen bis heute zu spüren sind.
British and German Historiography, 1750-1950
This volume compares British and German historiography from the Enlightenment to the middle of the twentieth century. It examines the scope and impact of intellectual transfers and throws light on the power and influence of national traditions. It documents the ways in which the British and German scholarly communities competed with and profited from each other.
Writing National Histories
This book examines comparatively how the writing of history by individuals and groups, historians, politicians and journalists has been used to "legitimate" the nation-state agianst socialist, communist and catholic internationalism in the modern era. Covering the whole of Western Europe, the book includes discussion of: * history as legitimation in post-revolutionary France * unity and confederation in the Italian Risorgimento * German historians as critics of Prussian conservatism * right-wing history writing in France between the wars * British historiography from Macauley to Trevelyan * the search for national identity in the reunified Germany.
Geschichte Irlands
Die Geschichte Irlands war von ihren Anfängen an nicht nur mit der englischen Geschichte, sondern auch mit dem übrigen Europa und später mit der außereuropäischen Welt eng verflochten. Invasionen verschiedener Völker, Englands Kampf um die Herrschaft in Irland und große Auswanderungswellen prägten die Insel in besonderem Maße. Benedikt Stuchtey gibt in diesem Buch einen kompakten Überblick über die Geschichte Irlands, die von langen und blutigen Konflikten, aber auch von einer blühenden Kultur gekennzeichnet ist und in der jüngsten Zeit den Weg zu einem stabileren Frieden eingeschlagen hat.
Science Across the European Empires, 1800-1950
The volume investigates how the British, French, German, and Dutch empires influenced or were influenced by scientific exploration as a means Western culture used to gain entry to the non-Western world from around 1800 to the middle of the 20th century. The transnational perspective aids an understanding and comparison of the sciences as an instrument which the colonial powers employed to gain economic advantage and political control. The essays pay tribute to the 'metropolitan/centre' and 'colonial/periphery' viewpoints and to the different ways in which imperial expansion occurred. Science had specific meanings in the specific historical realities of European colonialism: the European case studies present similarities and differences in their imperial systems, and in the way in which science was used in relation to the level at which they interacted intellectually with the indigenous populations.
London’s Urban Landscape
London’s Urban Landscape is the first major study of a global city to adopt a materialist perspective and stress the significance of place and the built environment to the urban landscape. Edited by Christopher Tilley, the volume is inspired by phenomenological thinking and presents fine-grained ethnographies of the practices of everyday life in London. In doing so, it charts a unique perspective on the city that integrates ethnographies of daily life with an analysis of material culture. The first part of the volume considers the residential sphere of urban life, discussing in detailed case studies ordinary residential streets, housing estates, suburbia and London’s mobile ‘linear vil...
Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery
Historians often assume a one-directional transmission of knowledge and ideas, leading to the establishment of spatial hierarchies defined as centres and peripheries. In recent decades, transnational and global history have contributed to a more inclusive understanding of intellectual and cultural exchanges that profoundly challenged the ways in which we draw our mental maps. Covering the early modern and modern periods, Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery investigates the asymmetrical and multi-directional structure of such encounters within Europe as well as in a global context. Exploring subjects from the shores of the Russian Empire to nation-making in Latin America, the international team o...
