Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE vii
4. Comparison and Beyond: Traditions, Scope, and Perspectives of Comparative History 1
5. PART I Comparative and Entangled History in Global Perspectives
6. CHAPTER 1 Between Comparison and Transfers – and What Now? A French-German Debate 33
7. CHAPTER 2 A ‘Transnational’ History of Society: Continuity or New Departure? 39
8. CHAPTER 3 Double Marginalization: A Plea for a Transnational Perspective on German History 52
9. CHAPTER 4 Entangled Histories of Uneven Modernities: Civil Society, Caste Councils, and Legal Pluralism in Postcolonial India 77
10. CHAPTER 5 Lost in Translation? Transcending Boundaries in Comparative History 105
11. PART II Transnationalization and Issues in European History
12. CHAPTER 6 The Nation as a Developing Resource Community: A Generalizing Comparison 133
13. CHAPTER 7 Birds of a Feather A Comparative History of German and US Labor in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 149
14. CHAPTER 8 Visions of the Future: GDR, CSSR, and the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1960s 178
15. CHAPTER 9 Comparisons, Cultural Transfers, and the Study of Networks Toward a Transnational History of Europe 204
16. CHAPTER 10 Germany and Africa in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: An Entangled History 226
17. CHAPTER 11 Losing National Identity or Gaining Transcultural Competence: Changing Approaches in Migration History 247
18. CONTRIBUTORS 272
19. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 276
20. INDEX 291