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Month: March 2015

Researching the project

Researching Ghadar has involved using a range of different source bases. In addition to published memoirs and collections of official documents – available through inter-library loan – I have consulted contemporary newspapers online through the library subscription to the ProQuest

Bernhard Struck March 31, 2015 Uncategorized Read more

Scale and Scope in Transnational History

It is clear from the literature on the topic that the level of detail in an article or book is an important consideration in the writing of transnational history. The two examples of transnational history that we read this week,

Bernhard Struck March 6, 2015 Uncategorized Read more

Space and Scale within Microhistory

Critics of transnational history seem to attribute the term as a buzzword, a fad occurring within the historical discipline. Despite the opinions of its proponents and opponents, both would agree that transnational history is by no means new. Its rise

Bernhard Struck March 4, 2015 Uncategorized Read more

Microhistory – The enticing potential & the great challenge

Our discussion this morning centred heavily on pinpointing the value of microhistory, with close reference to the article “A Chinese Farmer, Two African Boys; and a Warlord” by Tonio Andrade, and Heather Streets-Salter’s “The Local was Global: The Singapore Mutiny

Bernhard Struck March 3, 2015 Uncategorized Read more

Micro History, Global History, Narrative and the Transnational Perspective

Since its heyday in the 1970s and 80s, cresting the waves of Ginzburg’s breakthrough tale of cheese and worms, micro history has remained both a popular and yet controversial methodology. However, in a field such as global history, micro history

Bernhard Struck March 3, 2015March 3, 2015 Uncategorized Read more

Doing Microhistory in a Global world

Transnational history and Global history have commonly been mistaken as the same thing; this they are not, but it is important to consider their shared suspicion of monocausal and unilinear macro-explanations. Great strides have been made in building powerful, complex

Bernhard Struck March 2, 2015March 2, 2015 Uncategorized Read more

Micro History: Putting the ‘Story’ back into History

When I first began reading about history, I remember becoming engrossed into the stories from the past, whether it was Paul Revere’s famous night ride from Boston on the eve of the start of the American Revolution or Adolph Hitler’s

Bernhard Struck March 2, 2015April 5, 2015 Discussion, Readings Read more

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