Comparison, transfer and entanglement, or: How to write modern European history today?

Abstract: Contemporaries referring to Europe and European history often have European unity in mind as an objective based on shared European values, institutions and experiences. However, under close scrutiny, a particular tension becomes obvious: a tension between convergent and divergent tendencies that is at the heart of every attempt to imagine and write European history. Against this background, the article begins with an overview of perspectives and functions characteristic of European historiography before going on to analyse the advantages and disadvantages of various systematic approaches to this subject. In a third step, the article sketches the potential of an approach by focusing on a specific case study: the comparison of the multi -ethnic empires of Habsburg, Tsarist Russia, the Ottoman Empire and the British Empire in the long nineteenth century. In conclusion, the final part presents a number of preliminary methodological hypotheses of the writing of European history

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
Notes
issn: 1611-8944

Keyword
Geschichte

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Veröffentlichung
(where)
Freiburg
(who)
Universität
(when)
2019
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DOI
10.6094/UNIFR/149588
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-1495884
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