Heinz-Gerhard Haupt is currently Professor of European History at the European University Institute. Previously, he was at the Universities of Bremen (1974-93), Halle (1993-98), and Bielefeld (1998-2004). He has been a Visiting Professor at the École des Hautes Études, Paris, University of Lyon II, and Columbia University and a Fellow at Princeton University. His publications in English include The Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe 1780-1914: Enterprise, Family and Independence (with G.Crossick, Routledge, 1995) and Europe in 1848: Revolution and Reform (edited with D. Dowe, D. Langewiesche, J. Sperber, 2001).

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Comparison and beyond: Traditions, scope and perspective of comparative history
Jürgen Kocka and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt

PART I: COMPARATIVE AND ENTANGLED HISTORY IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES

Chapter 1. The debate between comparison and transfers - and what now?
Hartmut Kaelble

Chapter 2. A 'Transnational' History of Society: Continuity or New Departure
Jürgen Osterhammel

Chapter 3. Double Marginalization: A plea for a transnational perspective on German history
Sebastian Conrad

Chapter 4. Entangled histories of uneven modernities: Civil society, caste councils and legal pluralism in postcolonial India
Shalini Randeria

Chapter 5. Lost in translation? Transcending boundaries in comparative history
M. Juneja and M. Pernau

PART II: TRANSNATIONALIZATION AND ISSUES IN EUROPEAN HISTORY

Chapter 6. The Nation as a Developing Resource Community: A Generalizing Comparison
Dieter Langewiesche

Chapter 7. Birds of a Feather: A Comparative History of German and U.S. Labour in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Thomas Welskopp

Chapter 8. Common challenges, common solutions? Visions of the future during the 1960s. GDR, CSSR and the Federal Republic of Germany in comparative perspective
Jörg Requate

Chapter 9. Comparisons, Cultural Transfers and the Study of Networks: Towards a Transnational History of Europe
Philipp Ther

Chapter 10. Germany and Africa in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: An Entangled History?
Andreas Eckert

Chapter 11. Losing National Identity or Gaining Transcultural Competence: Changing Approaches in Migration History
Dirk Hoerder

Notes on Contributors

Selected Bibliography

Index