Exploring global historical research as a diverse movement, this book presents case studies that highlight significant historical developments in China, Germany, and the United States. It examines how different cultural and national contexts shape historical narratives and methodologies, offering insights into the interconnectedness of global histories.
Global Moments and Movements, 1880s-1930s
Focusing on redefining historical narratives, this volume gathers international scholars to explore alternatives to the current discourse on globalization. It aims to uncover significant global perspectives on historical events and processes during the late 19th and 20th centuries, emphasizing a more nuanced understanding of transnational history.
This volume explores a rapidly emerging paradigm in the social sciences, which assumes culturally specific forms of modernity. Modernization is thus no longer equated with homogenization. Leading scholars from history, sociology, area studies, and economics discuss the concept's implications.The first part covers a range of theoretical questions arising from the new approach. Issues such as the common features of all modernities and their interrelation with regional particularities, the reasons for antinomies of modernity, and the preconditions for a peaceful coexistence of cultures are raised.The second and third parts deal with Europe and China as two specific encounters with modernity, the tensions between universalism and cultural identities, both in past and present. The fourth part analyzes how Multiple Modernities translates into formal and informal institutions of "diverse capitalisms".Authors include well-known specialists Mark Juergensmeyer, Hartmut Kaelble, Bruce Mazlish and Frederic Wakeman.
The seventeenth-century Chinese Christian convert Zhu Zongyuan likely never left his home province, yet led a remarkably global life through scholarly activities and globalizing Catholicism. Dominic Sachsenmaier explores the mid- seventeenth-century world through the lens of Zhu's life, combining the local, regional, and global.
Gegenstand der Arbeit sind die Werke und Schriften Zhu Zongyuans (ca. 1616-1660), einem der bedeutendsten chinesischen Konvertiten der Ming-Qing-Übergangszeit. Zhus Schriften gewähren sowohl Einblicke in die zweite und dritte Generation chinesischer Christen als auch in die Welt der Konvertiten aus dem mittleren und niederen Literatenstand. So nimmt es kaum Wunder, dass sich in weiten Teilen der Argumentationen Zhus (z. B. in seinen Thesen gegen den Sinozentrismus) eine bislang unbekannte Ausprägung des chinesischen Christentums findet.