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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2019.
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| Colección: | New German historical perspectives ;
v. 11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.