New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2009.

viii, 294 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliography (p. [276]-290) and index.

Comparison and beyond : traditions, scope, and perspective of comparative history / Jürgen Kocka/Heinz-Gerhard Haupt -- Between comparison and transfers--and what now? A French-German debate / Hartmut Kaelble -- A "transnational" history of society : continuity or new departure? / Jürgen Osterhammel -- Double marginalization : a plea for a transnational perspective on German history / Sebastian Conrad -- Entangled histories of uneven modernities : civil society, caste councils, and legal pluralism in postcolonial India / Shalini Randeria -- Lost in translation? Transcending boundaries in comparative history / Monica Juneja/Margrit Pernau -- The nation as a developing resource community : a generalizing comparison / Dieter Langewiesche -- Birds of a feather : a comparative history of German and U.S. labor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Thomas Welskopp -- Visions of the future : GDR, CSSR, and the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1960s / Jörg Requate -- Comparisons, cultural transfers, and the study of networks : toward a transnational history of Europe / Philipp Ther -- Germany and Africa in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries : an entangled history? / Andreas Eckert -- Losing national identity or gaining transcultural competence : changing approaches in migration history / Dirk Hoerder.

Germany (West) -- Historiography.

Germany -- Historiography.

Europe, Central -- Historiography.

Germany -- Social conditions -- Historiography.

Europe, Central -- Social conditions -- Historiography.

Transnationalism -- Historiography.

Acculturation -- Historiography.

Social history -- Methodology.

History -- Methodology.

History -- Comparative method.

Haupt, Heinz-Gerhard.

Kocka, Jürgen.

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