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The force of comparison : a new perspective on modern European history and the contemporary world /

"In an era defined by daily polls, institutional rankings, and other forms of social quantification, it can be easy to forget that comparison has a long historical lineage. Presenting a range of multidisciplinary perspectives, this volume investigates the concepts and practices of comparison fr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Steinmetz, Willibald (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
Colección:New German historical perspectives ; v. 11.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction: Concepts and practices of comparison in modern history / Willibald Steinmetz -- Outlines of a historical epistemology of comparison : from Descartes to the early nineteenth century / Michael Eggers -- Comparative practices and their implications : the case of comparative viewing / Johannes Grave -- Above/below, better/worse or simply different? : metamorphoses of social comparison, 1600-1900 / Willibald Steinmetz -- Empowering comparisons? : the making of republics in the early modern period / Lars Behrisch -- Comparing Europe and the Americas : the dispute of the New World between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries / Angelika Epple -- European colonial empires and Victorian imperial exceptionalism / Alex Middleton -- Comparison and the welfare state in modern Europe, c. 1880-1945 / Julia Moses -- Comparison, rivalry and competition under neoliberalism and state socialism / David Priestland -- Comparing economic activities on a global level in the 1920s and 1930s : motives and consequences / Martin Bemmann -- In search of a global centre of calculation : the Washington Statistical Conferences of 1947 / Daniel Speich Chassé -- Formalized comparisons : rankings and status in higher education / Wendy Espeland -- Good, better, best : comparisons and the power of ranking orders / Bettina Heintz. 
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