Transcultural history: theories, methods, sources

For the 21st century, the often-quoted citation ‘past is prologue’ reads the other way around: The global present lacks a historical narrative for the global past. Focussing on a transcultural history, this book questions the territoriality of historical concepts and offers a narrative, which aims to overcome cultural essentialism by focussing on crossing borders of all kinds. Transcultural History reflects critically on the way history is constructed, asking whoformed history in the past and who succeeded in shaping what we call the master narrative. Although trained European historians, the authors aim to presenta useful approach to global history, showing first of all how a Eurocentric but universal historiography removed or essentialised certain topics in Asian history. As an empirical discipline, history is based on source material, analysed according to rules resulting from a strong methodological background. Thisbook accesses the global past after World War I, looking at the well known stage of the Paris Peace Conferences, observing the multiplication of new borders and the variety of transgressing institutions, concepts, actors, men and women inventing themselves as global subjects, but sharing a bitter experience with almost all local societies at this time, namely the awareness of having relatives buried in far distant places due to globalised wars. Questions the territoriality of historical concepts. Presents a useful approach to global history by focussing on crossing borders of all kinds. Reflects critically on the way history is constructed. INDICE: What is Transcultural History? Methodological Key Elements of Transcultural History. Combining Culture and Border Crossing.

• ISBN: 978-3-642-19195-4
• Editorial: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 175
• Fecha Publicación: 31/12/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés