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By Maura O'Connor, Deborah Cohen
Historians this day wish to hold forth the virtues of comparability and cross-national paintings. within the final decade, cross-national histories have prospered, yielding vital paintings within the matters as diversified because the transatlantic alternate in slaves and the cultures of star. meanwhile, comparative heritage has additionally loved a renaissance, yet what's principally lacking within the rush past the kingdom is any feel of ways to take on this research.This quantity brings jointly students who've labored both cross-nationally or relatively to mirror upon their very own examine. In essays that have interaction sensible, methodological, and theoretical questions, those members check the gains--but additionally the hindrances and perils--of study that traverses nationwide obstacles. Drawn from the subject-areas that experience attracted the main comparative and cross-national cognizance: battle, welfare, hard work, state, immigration, and gender. Taken jointly, those essays give you the first serious research of the cross-national flip in eu historical past.
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Historians of Britain have for long wondered whether the reason political histories took France, with its revolution, as the standard was simply that spectacle is spectacular as quiet reformist change is not. When Behrens posed the same question in her comparison of Prussia and France, the answer must have seemed perverse to the French point of view. 21 The Revolution, so the implication, was not the glorious culmination of strivings for change and betterment, but the expression of a developmental pathology.
25 Similarly, scholars of fascism have spent disproportionate energy on categorizations and typologies. On the other side of the political spectrum we are content to have Main Currents of Marxism and could equally well have main currents of socialism, communism, or any permutation thereof. Partly, this has to do with variations on a theme in an ideology with common touchstones to which all, at whatever removes, refer back. Equally, it concerns the self-professed internationalism of the movement(s).
The choice makes, of course, for quite different Fragestellungen. In examining the comparative development of welfare states, Rose’s deliberate provocation (mentioned earlier) poses the question in reverse of its usual formulation: not why did the United States and most of the world not follow the example of well-developed social policy blazed in northern Europe, but conversely, why should this obscure nook of the world be considered the standard against which the geopolitically more important nations of the new world and Asia are to be measured?