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Transcultural History

Theories, Methods, Sources

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  1. Madeleine Herren

    1. , Historisches Seminar, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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  2. Martin Rüesch

    1. Karl Jaspers Centre, Heidelberg, Germany

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  3. Christiane Sibille

    1. Karl Jaspers Centre, Heidelberg, Germany

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  • Questions the territoriality of historical concepts
  • Presents a useful approach to global history by focussing on crossing borders of all kinds
  • Reflects critically on the way history is constructed

Part of the book series: Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context (TRANSCULT)

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Table of contents (3 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: What is Transcultural History?

    • Madeleine Herren, Martin Rüesch, Christiane Sibille
    Pages 1-10

  3. Part I: Theories and Concepts

    • Madeleine Herren, Martin Rüesch, Christiane Sibille
    Pages 11-67

  4. Part II: Methods

    • Madeleine Herren, Martin Rüesch, Christiane Sibille
    Pages 69-141

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 143-174
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About this book

For the 21st century, the often-quoted citation ‘past is prologue’ reads the other way around: The global present lacks a historical narrative for the global past. Focussing on a transcultural history, this book questions the territoriality of historical concepts and offers a narrative, which aims to overcome cultural essentialism by focussing on crossing borders of all kinds. Transcultural History reflects critically on the way history is constructed, asking who formed history in the past and who succeeded in shaping what we call the master narrative. Although trained European historians, the authors aim to present a useful approach to global history, showing first of all how a Eurocentric but universal historiography removed or essentialised certain topics in Asian history. As an empirical discipline, history is based on source material, analysed according to rules resulting from a strong methodological background. This book accesses the global past after World War I, looking at thewell known stage of the Paris Peace Conferences, observing the multiplication of new borders and the variety of transgressing institutions, concepts, actors, men and women inventing themselves as global subjects, but sharing a bitter experience with almost all local societies at this time, namely the awareness of having relatives buried in far distant places due to globalised wars.
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  • , Historisches Seminar, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Madeleine Herren

  • Karl Jaspers Centre, Heidelberg, Germany

    Martin Rüesch, Christiane Sibille

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