Across Cultural Borders Historiography in Global Perspective

by Fuchs, Eckhardt; Stuchtey, Benedikt; Dirlik, Arif; Eckert, Andreas; Gottlob, Michael; Hui, Wang; Keita, Maghan; Lingelbach, Gabriele; Meissner, Jochen; Middell, Matthias; Rüsen, Jörn; Tanaka, Stefan; Wang, Q Edward

• ISBN13: 9780742517684
• ISBN10: 0742517683
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-22
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This ambitious work offers the first comprehensive transcultural history of historiography. The contributors transcend a Eurocentric approach not only in terms of the individual historiographies they assess but also in the methodologies they use for compa

Author Biography

Arif Dirlik is a professor of history at the University of Oregon Andreas Eckert teaches in the Department of African Studies at the Humboldt University, Berlin Eckhardt Fuchs is an assistant professor in the Department of Education at the University of Mannheim Michael Gottlob is a historian living in Bergamo, Italy Maghan Keita is a professor of history at Villanova University Gabriele Lingelbach is an assistant professor in the History Department at the University of Trier Jochen Meissner is an assistant professor in the History Department at the University of Hamburg, Germany Matthias Middell is the research administrator of the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Leipzig Jorn Rusen is the director of the Institute of Cultural Studies in Essen Benedikt Stuchtey is a research fellow at the German Historical Institute, London Stefan Tanaka is a professor of history at the University of California at San Diego Wang Hui is a member of the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Science, Beijing Q. Edward Wang is a professor of history at Rowan University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: Provincializing Europe: Historiography as a Transcultural Concept	1	(28)
Eckhardt Fuchs
Part I Historiography and Cultural Identity
The Authenticity of a Copy: Problems of Nineteenth-Century Spanish-American Historiography	29	(24)
Jochen Meissner
In Search of Lost Identity: South Africa between Great Trek and Colonial Nationalism, 1830-1910	53	(22)
Benedikt Stuchtey
India's Connection to History: The Discipline and the Relation between Center and Periphery	75	(24)
Michael Gottlob
Historiography on a ``Continent without History'': Anglophone West Africa, 1880s-1940s	99	(20)
Andreas Eckert
Alternative National Histories in Japan: Yamaji Aizan and Academic Historiography	119	(22)
Stefan Tanaka
Part II Across Cultural Borders
German Historicism and Scientific History in China, 1900-1940	141	(22)
Q. Edward Wang
Transfer and Interaction: France and Francophone African Historiography	163	(20)
Matthias Middell
The Historical Discipline in the United States: Following the German Model?	183	(22)
Gabriele Lingelbach
The Politics of the Republic of Learning: International Scientific Congresses in Europe, the Pacific Rim, and Latin America	205	(42)
Eckhardt Fuchs
Part III Beyond Eurocentrism: The Politics of History in a Global Age
History without a Center? Reflection on Eurocentrism	247	(38)
Arif Dirlik
Africa and the Construction of a Grand Narrative in World History	285	(24)
Maghan Keita
``Modernity'' and ``Asia'' in the Study of Chinese History	309	(26)
Wang Hui
Comparing Cultures in Intercultural Communication	335	(14)
Jorn Rusen
Index	349	(10)
About the Contributors	359