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Month: April 2015

Conference Presentations: Afterthoughts

In response to the presentations on Tuesday (all of which were centered around fascinating topics, I might add), I just wanted to post my thoughts about a few ideas that stuck out in my mind. I was very taken by

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Project Problems: Structure, Sources and the Transnational Context

The current challenge I’m facing in writing my project is deciding upon a structure that keeps the transnational element at the centre. The essential purpose of my project is to uncover the transnational connections between Belfast and Glasgow through the

Bernhard Struck April 13, 2015 Uncategorized Read more

Project Progress and Problems

Where my project stands at the moment is one that still lacks focus and a specific argument at such. As the nature of my project has evolved from focusing on the first Documenta exhibition in 1955 to covering three (1955,

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Some Clarity (finally!) with My Project

After my research frustrations, I decided to turn back to David Goldblatt’s comprehensive book about the global history of football, The Ball is Round. In his chapter on the turn of the professionalization of the game, he argues that the European game

Bernhard Struck April 13, 2015April 20, 2015 Habits & Routines, Uncategorized Read more

Project problems: accounts from the angle of the Ghadarites

Ghadar has been written about from two main perspectives: firstly (and primarily), building it into the story of Indian nationalism; secondly, fitting it into the history of revolutionary movements of the early twentieth century. It is the challenge of how

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Project Progress: Dead Ends and New Entry Points

When I began my research for my project, I was very optimistic about the role that primary sources would play in my sources. Much like Sebastian Conrad examined the role of work in his study of migration in 19th Century

Bernhard Struck April 12, 2015April 12, 2015 Discussion, Habits & Routines Read more

Project Problems

The process of developing my project around the theme of Prohibition bootlegging on the Michigan-Ontario border has proved a challenging one. The wealth of primary and secondary sources which I have found has made it increasingly difficult to find a

Bernhard Struck April 11, 2015 Uncategorized Read more

The Agency of the Individual

When examining history in the context of nation-states interacting with nation-states, it is often easy, and sometimes inevitable, that we lose sight of the role of individuals. Even if individuals are considered, it is difficult to imagine them as individual

Bernhard Struck April 6, 2015 Uncategorized Read more

Actors and networks- rethinking space and time

The concept of networks in transnational history is potentially a very powerful one; they can elucidate exactly why certain phenomena developed, and why in specific spaces, both socially and geographically. Human connections have often connected geographically independent regions or individuals

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Personal Interactions: The Perfect Starting Point for Studying Networks (or a Historian’s Worst Nightmare)?

In her article we read back in Week 1, Patricia Clavin states that transnational history is “first and foremost about the people.” This might be stating the obvious, but it is a useful quote to keep in mind when looking

Bernhard Struck April 5, 2015 Readings, Uncategorized Read more

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