Conceptualising transnational spaces in history

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Notes

 1. For a thorough assessment of the debate on history beyond the nation-state, see: Werner and Zimmermann, “Vergleich, Transfer, Verflechtung”.

 2. Le Goff, Nouvelles approches.

 3. Cf. e.g. Haupt and Kocka, “Historischer Vergleich”; Haupt and Kocka, “Comparative History”.

 4. See e.g. Anderson, Lineages of the Absolutist State; more recently Tacke, Denkmal im sozialen Raum; Johansen, Soldiers as Police: The French and Prussian Armies and the Policing of Popular Protest, 1889–1914. Cf. also Ahrweiler and Aymard, Les Européens.

 5. Zernack, “Das Jahrtausend deutsch-polnischer Beziehungsgeschichte als geschichtswissenschaftliches Problemfeld und Forschungsaufgabe”.

 6. Cf. Middell, “Von der Wechselseitigkeit der Kulturen im Austausch”.

 7. Cf. Werner and Zimmermann, “Penser l'histoire croisée”; Werner and Zimmermann, eds, De la comparaison à l'histoire croisée; Werner and Zimmermann, “Beyond Comparison”.

 8. Cf. Milward, The European Rescue of the Nation State.

 9. Müller, “Where and when was (East) Central Europe”.

10. Haupt, Müller and Wolff, Regional and National Identities in 19th and 20th century Europe.

11. Thiesse, La creazione delle identità nazionali in Europa.

12. Cf. only Stoler and Cooper, eds, Tensions of Empire; Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe; Conrad and Randeria, eds, Jenseits des Eurozentrismus.

13. Cf. Mazlish, An Introduction to Global History; Geyer and Bright. “World History in a Global Age”; Torp, Die Herausforderung der Globalisierung; Torp, “Erste Globalisierung und deutscher Protektionismus”; Conrad, Globalisierung und Nation; Conrad et al., eds, Globalgeschichte.

14. See, for example, Hartmut Kaelble's typology of ‘civilisations’ (European, Asian, North American etc.) as objects of comparative research; cf. Kaelble, “Der historische Zivilisationsvergleich”. Cf. also Sachsenmayer, Riedel and Eisenstadt, eds, Reflections on Multiple Modernities.

15. See, for instance, Mintz, Sweetness and Power; Yergin, The Prize; Kurlansky, Salt; and Sven Beckert's upcoming global history of cotton.

16. Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization.

17. Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World; Osterhammel, Die Verwandlung der Welt.

18. Cf. the contributions to this special issue by Ole Peter Grell, Heather Jones and René Leboutte.

19. Müller, “Where and when was (East) Central Europe.”

20. Cf. Chris Bayly's contribution to the 2006 AHR Conversation “On Transnational History,” 1448.

21. Cf. Maier, “Consigning the Twentieth Century to History”; Maier, “Transformations of Territoriality”.

22. Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity.

23. McLuhan, Gutenberg Galaxy; McLuhan and Powers, Global Village.

24. For the ‘spatial turn’ in the different disciplines cf. only Döring and Thielmann, eds, Spatial Turn; Löw, Raumsoziologie; Gunn, “The Spatial Turn”; Schlögel, Im Raume lesen wir die Zeit; Hallet and Neumann, eds, Raum und Bewegung in der Literatur; Warf and Arias, eds, The Spatial Turn.

25. Cf. Inda and Rosaldo, “Introduction. A World in Motion”.

26. See above.

27. Schlögel, Im Raume lesen wir die Zeit.

28. As an example, cf. his essay “Russischer Raum – Versuch einer Hermeneutik”, Schlögel, Im Raume lesen wir die Zeit, 393–408.

29. Cf. the contribution to this issue by Philip Crang and Sonia Ashmore.

30. Cf. only Downs and Stea, Maps in Minds; Harley, “Deconstructing the Map”; Schultz, “Fantasies of ‘Mitte’, ‘Mittellage’ and ‘Mitteleuropa’”; Todorova, Imagining the Balkans; Wolff, Inventing Eastern Europe; Conrad ed., Mental Maps.

31. Cf. the contributions to this issue by Ole Peter Grell, Antonio Terraza Lozano, Ulrike Lindner, Martin Kohlrausch, Katrin Steffen and Mate Nikola Tokić.

32. The articles in this special issue were presented at a workshop at the European University Institute in Florence which took place on 12 November 2008. We would like to thank the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and its director, Stefano Bartolini, for funding and hosting us. Furthermore we are grateful to the commentators on the papers: Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, Peter Hertner, Kiran Patel, Steve Smith and Philipp Ther.