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Transnational Methodology in Rita Chin’s The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany

In the first chapter of her book The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany, Rita Chin makes an excellent case for the roles played by both Aras Ören and the wider Ausländerliteratur community in the German phenomenon which she calls

Bernhard Struck February 7, 2016 Readings Read more

National governments as institutions in the study of transnational history

Patricia Clavin emphasizes that transnational history allows us t0 explore the history of supra-, trans-, and international institutions. She often references the League of Nations, as well as the United Nations, as heretofore unexplored nexuses for transnational history. However, it

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Comparing Clavin’s two articles on Transnationalism

~~howl howl~~ In this entry I offer summaries of Patricia Clavin’s two articles on transnationalism published in 2005 and 2010, pointing out for instance how transnational history treats time and space, its distinct methodology and implications for historical writing.

Bernhard Struck February 1, 2016February 1, 2016 Readings Read more

Global History and its Relation to Transnational History

The relation of global history to transnational history is more complex than I first thought. An interesting point raised, that I wish to address here, is the idea that the two schools converge. Behind this is the idea that transnational

Bernhard Struck February 1, 2016 Discussion, Readings Read more

Preserving Clarity in Transnational History

If transnational history is intended to ‘destroy containers’, to borrow the phrasing of Dr Struck, then we must be careful to ensure that we are not simply replacing one set of obstructive and dogmatic terms with a newer yet similarly

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Is transnational history dependent on the nation?

Transnational history is an elusive term. It’s perhaps an attractive concept because of the difficulty in citing an exact definition, but its potential and creativity is crucial to its interpretation. Freed from the constrictions of an “intellectual straitjacket”, I am

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Destroying Containers! The challenge of spatial dynamics

What is transnational history? And what is it about? Some critics have commented that transnational history was a too loose, open and vague concept. Personally, I would defend it – I would defend the openness and vagueness as a strength

Bernhard Struck January 29, 2015February 6, 2015 Discussion Read more

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