Force of Comparison

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Force of Comparison

A New Perspective on Modern European History and the Contemporary World

Steinmetz, Willibald

Berghahn Books

03/2026

354

Mole

Inglês

9781836953951

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Introduction: Concepts and Practices of Comparison in Modern History

Willibald Steinmetz



Chapter 1. Outlines of a Historical Epistemology of Comparison: From Descartes to the Early Nineteenth Century

Michael Eggers



Chapter 2. Comparative Practices and their Implications: The Case of Comparative Viewing

Johannes Grave



Chapter 3. Above/Below, Better/Worse, or Simply Different? Metamorphoses of Social Comparison, 1600-1900

Willibald Steinmetz



Chapter 4. Empowering Comparisons? The Making of Republics in the Early Modern Period

Lars Behrisch



Chapter 5. Comparing Europe and the Americas: The Dispute of the New World between the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Angelika Epple



Chapter 6. European Colonial Empires and Victorian Imperial Exceptionalism

Alex Middleton



Chapter 7. Comparison and the Welfare State in Modern Europe, c. 1880-1945

Julia Moses



Chapter 8. Comparison, Rivalry and Competition under Neo-Liberalism and State Socialism

David Priestland



Chapter 9. Comparing Economic Activities on a Global Level in the 1920s and 1930s: Motives and Consequences

Martin Bemmann



Chapter 10. In Search of A Global Centre of Calculation: The Washington Statistical Conferences of 1947

Daniel Speich Chasse



Chapter 11. Formalized Comparisons: Rankings and Status in Higher Education

Wendy Espeland



Chapter 12. Good - Better - Best: The Power of Ranking Orders

Bettina Heintz



Index
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Europe; Age of Comparison; Contested Method; History of Comparison; Results of Comparison