Remembering wartime violence in twentieth-century Transylvania: A few thoughts on comparative history

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 101-110
Author(s):  
Maria Bucur
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Comparative History

Interlude

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordanna Bailkin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Comparative History

The Interlude narrates the diverse and often harrowing stories of how refugees arrived in Britain during the twentieth century. But it also questions the fetish of arrival that characterizes many refugee stories. Scenes of arrival (the trains of the Kindertransporte, the small boats from Vietnam rescued by British ships)—iconic though they have become—cut the story of refugees short. They uphold the fiction that each situation was the result of an unprecedented, temporary crisis that was foreign and external to Britain: in short, an emergency. This chapter offers comparative history as a rejoinder to the corrosive discourse of emergency. It argues for seeing refugee camps not as signs of emergency—disconnected from Britain’s own history—but as deeply rooted in that history.

scholarly journals Diffusion-Reception Networks of Pedagogical Knowledge: The circulation of John Dewey's educational discourse in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian space

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 137-160
Author(s):  
Ana Isabel Madeira
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Pedagogical Knowledge ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Comparative History ◽  
Educational History ◽  
Educational Discourse ◽  
Afro Brazilian

This article addresses the question of the appropriation of John Dewey’s pedagogical ideas in relation to the study of communication networks and the thesis of diffusion-reception of educational knowledge in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian space. It aims at the analysis of the interactions that took place between the Portuguese movement known as “Escola Nova,” the Brazilian “Escolanovismo,” and the construction of colonial educational systems, in the early decades of the twentieth century. It tries to assess the results of projects undertaken during the last decade by Portuguese, African, and Brazilian researchers in the field of educational history in a comparative perspective. It tries to set a development axis for comparative-history research in the Lusophone space by identifying the educational transfers between Portugal, Africa, and Brazil. It aims at clarifying John Dewey’s contribution towards the establishment of specialized educational knowledge.

Sport in West and North Europe

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Young
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cold War ◽  
European Integration ◽  
English Language ◽  
Comparative History ◽  
The West ◽  
Historical Reality ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War

This chapter examines the development of sport in one of the most significant regions in its history. It explains the institutional reasons why a truly comparative history of the continent is still lacking and presents and critiques fruitful new avenues that might lead to a more integrated picture. Its principle plaidoyer is for greater recognition of sports of non-British origin, as well as the polygenetic spread of British sports, especially in English-language scholarship. It also urges a cautious reconsideration of political and ideological narratives (of the Fascist era in particular), which have tended to reduce complex historical reality to moral truths. While the chapter places a special emphasis on the first half of the twentieth century, it outlines the three key areas of sport’s development after 1945: affluence in the West, the Cold War, and European integration. Here, too, the chapter calls on future accounts to strive for greater complexity.

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