Cargando…
People, nations and traditions in a comparative frame : thinking about the past with Jonathan Steinberg /
This book illustrates and celebrates Professor Jonathan Steinberg's - a celebrated historian of modern Europe, especially Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland - contributions to historical practice. Professor Steinberg embraced methodological pluralism and pioneered comparative history, expl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
London :
Anthem Press,
2021.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Notes
- Parts One-Five
- Part One Methodological Pluralism and New Applications
- Chapter One All or Nothing: From Comparative to Transnational History
- The Challenges of Comparison
- The Case for Comparison
- Towards the Transnational?
- The 1960s in Transnational Perspective
- Notes
- Chapter Two Swiss History Only as National History? How to Break out of the Cage of National Historiography
- 1. What is meant by 'Swiss history'?
- 2. Is it true that Swiss history is only pursued by Swiss, and if so, why is this the case?
- 3. Is Switzerland an exception in this regard, and if not, why not?
- 4. What is Swiss about Swiss historians?
- 5. What would have changed had more non-Swiss dealt with Switzerland?
- 6. Are national histories still needed, and if so, what should they look like?
- Notes
- Chapter Three 'The Kaiser's Navy and German Society': The View from the Tattooist's Studio
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- Notes
- Chapter Four The Warburgs and Yesterday's Financial Deterrent
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- Notes
- Part Two Personal and National Character
- Chapter Five Clarendon's Exile and the Role of Personality in Historical Explanation
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- Notes
- Chapter Six Leslie Stephen and the Americans
- Notes
- Chapter Seven From Bodyguard to General: The Strange Career of Joseph 'Sepp' Dietrich
- Notes
- Chapter Eight Johnny Eyetie and the Teds: British Soldiers' Attitudes towards their Italian and German Enemies in the Second World War
- Notes
- Part Three Society, Families and the Sovereign Self
- Chapter Nine The Family of Sovereigns at Modern Times
- 1. Political Anarchism and the Family
- Warren and the problem of childhood
- 2. Free Love at Modern Times
- Andrews and the moral hierarchy of love
- 3. The Family and Perfectibility
- Edger and the positive family
- Newbery and 'rational procreation'
- 4. Man as a Subject for Science
- Science, sovereignty and the family
- Notes
- Chapter Ten French Family Policy and the Family of Nations in the Interwar Years
- Notes
- Chapter Eleven Death of a Dream: Liberal Values and the Crisis of the British Welfare State, 1945-2014
- Notes
- Part Four History Out of Sync: Modernity and Tradition
- Chapter Twelve A Risorgimento Influence on the Modern European Image of St Francis of Assisi
- Notes
- Chapter Thirteen Hometown Hamburg: Constructing the Non- Liberal and Non-Modern Foundations of the Weimar Republic in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Hamburg: A City of Two Social Orders
- Hamburg: The Capital of German Handwerk
- Hamburg: A City of Disturbers
- Hamburg in the Weimar Republic: Betwixt and Between
- Notes