This innovative 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 comparative analysis. Moving beyond the traditional national focus of historiography, the book offers a genuinely comparative consideration of the commonalities and differences in writing history. Distinguishing among distinct cultural identities, the contributors consider the ways and means of intellectual transfers and assess the strength of local historiographical traditions as they are challenged from outside. The essays explore the question of the utility and the limits of conceptions of modernism that apply Western theories of development to non-Western cultures. Warning against the dominant tendency in recent historiographies of non-Western societies to define these predominantly in relation to Western thought, the authors show the extent to which indigenous traditions have been overlooked. The key question is how the triad of industrialization, modernization, and the historicization process, which was decisive in the development of modern academic historiography, also is valid beyond Europe. Illustrating just how deeply suffused history writing is with European models, the book offers a broad theoretical platform for exploring the value and necessity of a world historiography beyond Eurocentrism.
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Ambitious in conception and rich in content, these essays on history writing around the world break the usual quarantines of national history by joining considerations of Latin America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America within one useful and thought-provoking volume. -- Carol Gluck, Columbia University
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 Indias 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? Reflections 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
Eckhardt Fuchs is an assistant professor at the University of Mannheim. Benedikt Stuchtey is a research fellow at the German Historical Institute, London.
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