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Month: February 2016

Toni Andrade’s Article: The Good and the Bad of Microhistory

Tonio Andrade’s Microhistory of the Siege of Fort Zeelandia is an excellent article in highlighting both the benefits and the pitfalls of micro history. Although Andrade begins his study with a rejection of the importance of the episode he pieces

Bernhard Struck February 15, 2016 Readings Read more

Scale in Micro History and Global History

I’ll admit that one of the issues I have been having in attempting to envisage global and transnational history and what they might entail is the potential scope of the subjects. At times, it seems that there are so many

Bernhard Struck February 15, 2016 Discussion, Readings Read more

From Italian miller to Singapore mutiny: an attempt at differentiating Microhistory and Transnational History

A look at how microhistory may be closer to cultural history and transnational history to international politics, even if both histories adopt the micro lens of analysis.

Bernhard Struck February 15, 2016February 15, 2016 Discussion, Readings Read more

The size of the historical lens: Singapore 1915

The 1915 Singapore mutiny is a well-documented event that has somehow escaped the attention of most historians: an issue which Heather Streets-Salter attempts to rectify in an article discussing the global implications of this local event. Divided into two parts,

Bernhard Struck February 15, 2016February 15, 2016 Uncategorized Read more

Micro History and the Dangers of Extrapolating Trends

As much as I always enjoy micro histories, with regards to transnational histories, I have had some hesitations regarding the compatibility of these two historical perspectives. I worry that to apply transnational perspectives to local people and events puts the

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The Importance of Scale

When studying history, it is common to think in terms of time; when an event happened and the events that preceded and succeeded it. But to throw in the idea of scale can allow a certain event to be viewed

Bernhard Struck February 15, 2016 Uncategorized Read more

Micro & Macro

In his article praising the uses of micro-history, Tonio Andrade hits the nail on the head by stating that imagination is the most important tool of the historian. Micro-history, with its up close and personal approach, feeds into the imagination

Bernhard Struck February 15, 2016April 21, 2016 Uncategorized Read more

Ideas to Sources or Ideas from Sources?

It isn’t unusual for a historian to look out onto the landscape of historiography on a particular issue and get the feeling that something is amiss. This can be the spark that sends them into the archives (or their existing

K. M. Lawson February 14, 2016 Uncategorized Read more

Comparative History (chicken?) – Transnational History (egg?)

It was great to see some of you browsing through last year’s posts, comments, readings – that is precisely the purpose of running “the soul” of MO3351 on this site. Keep going, browsing, interacting with previous students’ thoughts. Now, this week

Bernhard Struck February 11, 2016February 11, 2016 Uncategorized Read more

Transnational Pub Talk – Week 3

GREAT, we did not only have a discussion around migration and the transnational making of post 1945 Germany (Rita Chin) and the USA (Ian Tyrrell) but you also started thinking ahead about your projects. Most of you have already penned

Bernhard Struck February 10, 2016February 10, 2016 Uncategorized Read more

Seeing & Reviewing Week 2

Last week, based on AHR conversation, Clavin, and Rüger’s OXO we had a good discussion (mainly in small groups) around a number of topics – with a number of looses ends. These included: -the relation between nation and trans -the

Bernhard Struck February 9, 2016 Uncategorized Read more

Writing transnational Europe – adding tomatoes

Back to routines and habits – have you started trying any new routines or braking with old habits? Have you started writing for an hour pre-breakfast for a week? Have you been jogging on the beach following reading Tyrrell and

Bernhard Struck February 8, 2016February 9, 2016 Uncategorized Read more

Finding a transnational scope on French sailor clothes?!

For the past two weeks, I’ve been struggling to define what I could feasibly write about during the coming weeks. From the practical viewpoint of a historian, national topics are appealing; one’s research material is physically closer, in one’s language, culturally familiar,

Bernhard Struck February 8, 2016 Uncategorized Read more

A transnational ‘City upon a hill’

NB: I haven’t read either reading particularly carefully as of yet, so I may disclaim the opinions expressed here in class tomorrow. When I was in high school I did an American history course (which might have been odd given

Bernhard Struck February 8, 2016 Uncategorized Read more

Unconventional Approaches to Understanding American History

Ian Tyrrell’s Transnational Nation. United States History in Global Perspective Since 1789 is an innovative study regarding the connections and interchange between the US and the rest of the world during America’s process of development and expansion. It is easy to

Bernhard Struck February 8, 2016February 8, 2016 Uncategorized Read more
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