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Macro micro macro macro micro macro micro micro macro history

Does anyone else have a problem with the fact that these words are basically the same? And also like…so micro means small, right? Which means that macro means big? But then on a camera, right, there is a macro setting.

Bernhard Struck February 20, 2018 Uncategorized Read more

Microhistory: the irregular and the human

When reading about transnational and microhistories, two thoughts came predominantly to mind. The first was on how one could reconcile history on what is seemingly its grandest scale with its smallest (and often its most irregular). At first glance, perhaps,

Bernhard Struck February 19, 2018 Discussion, Readings Read more

Review: In search of the Chinese Common Reader. Usable Knowledge and Wondrous Ignorance in the Age of Global Science, Joan Judge (York University Toronto)

I remember doing a module on twentieth century China in year 10 at high school and noted the strong emphasis that my teacher placed on how the state strongly influenced what people read and thought. The primary sources that we

Bernhard Struck February 19, 2018 Uncategorized Read more

The continuous discontinuity of history’s agent-strands

History is made up of microhistories. If you stand a distance from the tapestry, it might appear that the individual threads make up sweeping stripes –grand movements; irresistible forces— but upon closer inspection, it is apparent that each ‘thread’ has

Bernhard Struck February 19, 2018 Uncategorized Read more

Microhistory, and [Neglected] Histories?

The following blogpost will consider two aspects of our readings for Tuesday. First, I’ll be talking about utilising microhistory, and its many benefits in historical analysis. Second, I’ll consider the reading regarding the Singapore Mutiny of 1915, and will consider

Bernhard Struck February 19, 2018February 19, 2018 Uncategorized Read more

An Image of the World

Scale is a term that is intrinsically linked to the processes of transnational history. With close links to that of micro-history, scale in the transnational perspective – another crucial component of transnational history – is centred on an inherent fear

Bernhard Struck February 17, 2018 Uncategorized Read more

The Return of Martin Guerre and Other Thoughts on Microhistory

First of all, I love microhistory. When I saw that one of our readings for this coming week was Tonio Andrade’s “A Chinese Farmer, Two African Boys; and a Warlord: Toward a Global Microhistory” I was enthusiastic to see how

Bernhard Struck February 16, 2018February 17, 2018 Uncategorized Read more

The instance of the abstract: when accuracy is inconvenient

How accurate does history need to be in order to be valid? How accurate can it be? In the face of the concept of transnational history, and the implications that some of its wider-reaching premises bring to bear upon much

Bernhard Struck February 14, 2018February 19, 2018 Uncategorized Read more

A little bit over-dramatic…

So in The Guest Worker Question in Post War Germany, Rita Chin focuses a lot on Aras Ören, a Turkish migrant to West Germany who created almost an entirely new category of writing through his literature. Obviously there were lots

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Does transnational history require a nation state or does it simply refer to the ways in which networks interact?

Although transnational history, by its very name would suggest a nation is necessary in its premise, does it actually need a nation to provide a comprehensive historical narrative? Or instead, does it simply need a border within which to work.

Bernhard Struck February 12, 2018 Uncategorized Read more

A Transnationalist Perspective: Spreading Ideas

Over the past couple of years, an interest towards studying about the American Revolution has skyrocketed, with the famed production of Hamilton at Broadway, which teaches American history through catchy tunes, or the presidency of Donald Trump, which encourages students to

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On the Advantages of Transnational History

One of the main benefits of transnational history is that it encourages the historian to look outside national borders for their research. Indeed, as history developed as a subject in the nineteenth century alongside the rise of nation states in

Bernhard Struck February 12, 2018 Uncategorized Read more

Theseus’ ship’s in fact a sieve

Theseus’ ship’s in fact a sieve

Transnationalism, it is evident, is a tricky beast to pin down. Even those who optimistically declare themselves to be defining it seem to find themselves grasping at shadows and not quite managing to fulfil their original intent. Such a difficulty

Bernhard Struck February 6, 2018February 19, 2018 Discussion Read more

‘Loose-fitting Garments’

Patricia Clavin references transnational history as a historical approach that functions as a “loose-fitting garment.” She emphasizes that world history and globalization are ‘as much about fragmentation as unity.’ In my pursuit of developing an apt understanding of transnational history,

Bernhard Struck February 6, 2018 Uncategorized Read more

Transnational History

Transnational history is a relatively new term, which, as Bayly suggests, has not become relevant to the historical narrative until after world war one. This school of thought looks at a larger global picture which have helped to shape history.

Bernhard Struck February 6, 2018February 6, 2018 Uncategorized Read more
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