Author: Bernhard Struck

Quotations of Chairman Mao, or rather affectionately known as the Little Red Book, is the embodiment of the Chinese Communist Party’s rather successful foray into ‘creating a global language of Maoist revolution’. A government institution, the International Bookstore, distributed more

Maps demonstrate the connection between countries. They are also highly subjective and allow for distortion. To simply scale down the 3D globe to a 2D projection involves alterations as the map-maker must choose what scale, orientation, key etc. These choices

As one of one of America’s most iconic and national products, Budweiser beer might not initially seem like the most obvious object of focus for a transnational study. However this beer (or these beers) has a fascinating transnational journey that

Efficiency in the kitchen became increasingly topical in the first half of the twentieth century. The story of the AGA oven (named after the Swedish company Aktiebolaget Gas Accumulator) illustrates several concerns people had for the kitchen that are still

European Identity and its potential and power have become extremely relevant for the contemporary issues facing the modern world. As the international community is becoming increasingly connected, is a realistic European identity prevalent if present at all in Europe? This

For my Transnational History project, I would like to focus on a specific aspect of the International Committee of the Red Cross’ activities during World War II – specifically, their interactions with prisoners of war and non-combatants in concentration camps

After approximately 500,000 widely varied, hardly developed ideas, none of which particularly excited, I think I have finally come up with two potential focusses for my project, which is fortunate given the impending presentation and proposal deadline. Having originally been researching

As I work on my project proposal for tomorrow, I am still facing fundamental issues with finding the appropriate or ideal topic. The past six weeks has given me a seemingly strong basis of Transnational History, its reach, abilities, short

A challenge I have found when doing my own research is where to find sources. I began with a few books from the library and then scoured the footnotes, writing down any titles that seemed to be of relevance or

For this week’s blog post, I would like to give an update on my ideas for the Project with reference to Werner & Zimmermann’s article on histoire croisée (Title: ‘Beyond Comparison: Histoire Croisée and the Challenge of Reflexivity,’ available on

As we near our project proposals and presentations I have begun to narrow down and also to begin to dive into some readings on the top I’ve chosen and as I have done this I have begun to cultivate a