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What is the term...?[edit]

What then is the term for studying the history texts of different countries, societies? I thought this was called comparative history.

I think you want "comparative historiography" Rjensen 07:41, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliography[edit]

That is a huge bibliography for what is a tiny stub, and likely to remain one. I suggest it be removed, or maybe copied to here. Scolaire (talk) 10:25, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No opposition, so here it is:

Geoffrey Barraclough; Main Trends in History, ; Holmes & Meier, 1979 online version
Deborah Cohen and Maura O'Connor; Comparison and History: Europe in Cross-National Perspective. Routledge, 2004 online edition
Cooper, Frederick. "Race, Ideology, and the Perils of Comparative History." American Historical Review, 101:4 (October 1996), 1122–1138. in JSTOR
Michael W. Doyle; Empires. Cornell University Press. 1986. online edition
S. N. Eisenstadt, The Political Systems of Empires (1968),
Frederickson, George M. "From Exceptionalism to Variability: Recent Developments in Cross-National Comparative History." Journal of American History 82:2 (September 1995), 587-604. in JSTOR
Halperin, Charles J. et al. " AHR Forum: Comparative History in Theory and Practice: A Discussion." American Historical Review, 87:1 (February 1982), 123-143. in JSTOR
Hill, Alette Olin and Boyd H. Hill. "AHR Forum: Marc Bloch and Comparative History." The American Historical Review 85:4 (October 1980), 828-846. in JSTOR
Hroch, Miroslav, Comparative Studies in Modern European History, Ashgate Variorum 2007
Mazlish, Bruce. Conceptualizing Global History. CO: Westview Press,1993.
McGerr, Michael. "The Price of the 'New Transnational History.'" American Historical Review 96:4 (October 1991), 1056–1067. in jstor
Russell M. Magnaghi; Herbert E. Bolton and the Historiography of the Americas Greenwood Press, 1998 online edition
Michael Mann. The sources of social power 1993
Meritt, Richard L. and Stein Rokkan, editors. Comparing Nations: The Use of Quantitative Data in Cross-National Research. Yale University Press, 1966.
Rusen, Jorn. "Some Theoretical Approaches to Intercultural Comparative Historiography." History and Theory 35:4 (December 1996), 5–22.
Pitirim A. Sorokin; Social Philosophies of an Age of Crisis. 1950 online edition
Pitirim A. Sorokin, Social and Cultural Dynamics (4 vol 1932; one-vol. edn., 1959).
Oswald Spengler; The decline of the West 2 vol (1918)
Stoler, Ann L. "Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in North American History and (Post) Colonial Studies." Journal of American History (Dec 2001), 831-864. in JSTOR
Tilly, Charles. Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons. Russell Sage Foundation, 1984.
Tipps, Dean. "Modernization Theory and the Comparative Study of Societies: A Critical Perspective." Comparative Studies in Society and History 15:2 (1973), 199-226.
Arnold J. Toynbee. A Study Of History 12 vol (1934-61); (2 vol abridgment 1957) online abridged version v. 1-6
Peter Turchin. History & Mathematics: Historical Dynamics and Development of Complex Societies. Moscow: KomKniga, 2006. ISBN 5484010020
Eric Voegelin, Order and History, 5 vol (1956-75)
Woodward, C. Vann, ed. The Comparative Approach to American History (1968)

no \it is a very short bibliography for what needs to become a major article. Better keep it to inspire some editors to get to work.Rjensen (talk) 17:16, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have kept it. I've kept it here. The article needs inline citations, not just the random addition of unsupported statements followed by a list of thirty books. If anybody uses one of the books, they should cite it; if not, then that booklist serves no purpose. Wikipedia is not a repository of book titles. Scolaire (talk) 20:12, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Expansion[edit]

Hi there, Prof. @Rjensen:

This page is quite short. Could you spare some time to expand it? Or what source (open, on-line, short essay ish) do you think we should rely on, as to writing up an introductory article? I'm not a history major .. so I'm more aiming for getting a good introduction of the methodology done first. I might translate it into Chinese later.

Regards. :) -- SzMithrandir (talk) 15:24, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's an interesting question... You might start with Welskopp, Thomas: Comparative History, which is in English & very strong on the European especially German literature. Rjensen (talk) 04:39, 17 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, that looks sound at first glance. Thank you! -- SzMithrandir (talk) 04:53, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]