TY - BOOK AU - Apor,Péter AU - Bloch,Marc AU - Breysig,Kurt AU - Brătianu,Gheorghe I. AU - Budimir,Milan AU - Cvijić,Jovan AU - Davillé,Louis AU - Hajnal,István AU - Halecki,Oskar AU - Handelsman,Marceli AU - Hintze,Otto AU - Iordachi,Constantin AU - Iorga,Nicolae AU - Mitrany,David AU - Papacostea,Victor AU - Pirenne,Henri AU - Rutkowski,Jan AU - Seignobos,Charles AU - Skok,Petar AU - Sée,Henri AU - Trencsényi,Balázs AU - Valjavec,Fritz TI - The Rise of Comparative History SN - 9789633863626 AV - D13 .R57 2021 U1 - 907.2 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Budapest, New York PB - Central European University Press KW - History KW - Comparative method KW - Methodology KW - Transnationalism KW - Historiography KW - HISTORY / Historiography KW - bisacsh KW - 20th century, Balkan, Central Europe, East-central Europe, Historiography, South-east Europe N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction. Comparisons, Transfers, Entanglements: A View From East Central Europe --; 1 Defining the Comparative Method --; Cultural History of the Modern Era --; Comparison and the Comparative Method, Particularly in Historical Studies --; On the Comparative Method in History --; Historical Science and Philosophy of History --; A Contribution Towards a Comparative History of European Societies --; 2 Structures and Institutions --; The Preconditions of Representative Government in the Context of World History --; The Balkan Peninsula --; The Common Character of Southeast European Institutions --; The Genesis of the Corvée System in Central Europe Since the End of the Middle Ages --; Serfdom of the Glebe and Its Fiscal Regime: Romanian, Slavic, and Byzantine Comparative Historical Essay --; On The Working Group of the Historiography of Small Nations --; 3 Beyond the National Grand Narratives --; The Development of Nationalities in Central-Eastern Europe --; What Is Eastern Europe? --; An Attempt at a Comparative History of the Peoples of Europe --; Aim and Significance of Balkan Studies --; The Effect of the War in Southeastern Europe --; The Balkan Peninsula and the Question of Comparative Studies --; Southeast Europe and the Balkans --; About the editors --; Index; restricted access N2 - This book—the first of a three-volume overview of comparative and transnational historiography in Europe—focuses on the complex engagement of various comparative methodological approaches with different transnational and supranational frameworks. It considers scales from universal history to meso-regional (i.e. Balkans, Central Europe, etc.) perspectives. In the form of a reader, it displays 18 historical studies written between 1900 and 1943. The collection starts with the French and German methodological discussions around the turn of the twentieth century, stemming from the effort to integrate history with other emerging social sciences on a comparative methodological basis. The volume then turns to the question of structural and institutional comparisons, revisiting various historiographical ventures that tried to sketch out a broader (regional or European-level) interpretative framework to assess the legal systems, patterns of agrarian production, and the common ethnographic and sociocultural features.   In the third part, a number of texts are presented, which put forward a supra-national research framework as an antidote to national exclusivism. While in Western Europe the most obvious such framework was pan-European, in East Central Europe the agenda of comparison was linked usually to a meso-regional framework. The studies are accompanied by short contextual introductions including biographical information on the respective authors UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789633863626 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789633863626/original ER -