Introduction: Cultural History Goes Global

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-155
Author(s):  
Marek Tamm

This introduction to the special issue on ‘Global Cultural History’ proposes a historiographic and conceptual framework for a ‘global turn’ in cultural history and for the articles gathered in the special issue. It discusses first the ‘archaeology of global cultural history’, i.e. the previous attempts to expand the scope of cultural history and to focus on connections and comparisons. Next, it proposes a conceptual mapping of global cultural history, concentrating especially on two conceptual triads: comparisons, connections and circulations, and scopes, scales and spaces. Third, the global challenge to the Eurocentric periodization of history is addressed, particularly the various attempts to ‘globalize’ these cultural movements and epochs which are traditionally considered genuinely European. Finally, the introduction argues for a cultural history of the globe, for considering ‘the global’ and ‘the globe’ not only as conceptual tools but also as historical objects.

Book Review: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte/Revue suisse d'histoire/Rivista storica svizzera 56, 1 (2006), special issue Verkehrsgeschichte, Train Tracks: Work, Play and Politics on the Railway, The Bridges of Medieval England: Transport and Society, 400–1800, Social Dimensions of Sustainable Transport: Transatlantic Perspectives, Storia dei trasporti in Italia, Konzentration und Krise der deutschen Schiffahrt. Maritime Wirtschaft und Politik im Kaiserreich, in der Weimarer Republik und im Nationalsozialismus, Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure, Le Saint-Laurent et les Grands Lacs au temps de la vapeur 1850–1950, Carriers and Coachmasters: Trade and Travel before the Turnpikes, The Dangers of Bus Reregulation, Das Verkehrssystem als Modernisierungsfaktor. Straßen, Post, Fuhrwesen und Reisen nach Triest und Fiume vom Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts bis zum Eisenbahnzeitalter, Cars and Culture: The Life Story of a Technology, Der holprige Siegeszug des Automobils 1895–1930. Zur Motorisierung des Straßenverkehrs in Frankreich, Deutschland und der Schweiz, Motorphobia: Antiautomobiler Protest in Kaiserreich und Weimarer Republik, The West Highland Railway: Plans, Politics and People, Handel und Verkehr im 20. Jahrhundert (Enzyklopädie deutscher Geschichte, Ships' Fastenings: From Sewn Boat to Steamship, Von der Preussag zur TUI. Wege und Wandlungen eines Unternehmens 1923–2003, St Christoph am Arlberg. Die Geschichte von Hospiz und Taverne, Kapelle und Bruderschaft, von Brücken, Wegen und Wasserstraßen, Säumern, Wirten und anderen Menschen an einem Alpenpaß. Ende des 14. bis Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts, Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations, Freizeit und Vergnügen vom 14. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert, Von der Chaussee zur Schiene. Militär und Eisenbahnen in Preußen 1833 bis 1866

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-158
Author(s):  
Gijs Mom ◽  
Ian Carter ◽  
Stephan Epstein ◽  
John Whitelegg ◽  
Valentina Fava ◽  
...  

2004 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Czajka

O golpe militar de abril de 1964 determinou-se como um marco decisivo na história política e cultural da sociedade brasileira. A proposição tem sido aceita não somente pela forma como ficou conhecida a estrutura do Estado após o advento das forças militares na cena política, mas pela intensa atividade cultural e artística por parte de intelectuais e artistas na década de 1960. Em geral, essa condição procura incutir uma certa unidade referencial nos movimentos artístico-culturais, que tinham como espelho a conduta política do Partido Comunista Brasileiro (PCB) – partido proeminente no período em questão. Embora o PCB tivesse adesão de inúmeros artistas e intelectuais, que procuravam firmar oposição ao regime e à política exercida pelos militares. Havia, por outro lado, um contingente de professores, escritores, jornalistas, poetas, diretores, atores e atrizes, entre outros, que faziam resistência sem efetivamente vincularem-se ao PCB. O chamado “pecebismo” era um elemento presente entre esse grupos, mas nunca respondeu necessariamente pela unidade (como numa “frente única”) ou articulação dos mesmos. Assim pode ser caracterizada, por exemplo, a ação do Comando dos Trabalhadores Intelectuais e da Revista Civilização Brasileira entre 1963-1968, nos quais constata-se a formação de um campo heterogêneo com disputas de projetos e debate de idéias que favoreceram a formação de uma esfera cultural crítica e abrangente. Redesigning ideologies: culture and politics at the time of a coup Abstract The military blow of April of 1964 was determined as a decisive landmark in the political and cultural history of the Brazilian society. The proposal has been accepted not only for the form as the advent of the military forces in the scene was known the structures of the State after politics, but for the intense cultural and artistic activity on the part of intellectuals and artists in the decade of 1960. In general, this condition looks for to infuse a certain referencial unit in the artistic-cultural movements, that had as mirror the political behavior of Partido Comunista Brasileiro (PCB) – broken prominent in the period in question. Although the PCB had adhesion of innumerable artists and intellectuals, who worked to firm opposition to the regimen and the politics exerted for the military. There was, on the other hand, a contingent of professors, writers, journalists, poets, directors, actors and actresses, among others, that made resistance without associating the PCB effectively to it. The called “pecebismo” was a present element among these groups, but it never answered necessarily for the union (as in a “frente única”) or joint of the same ones. Thus it can be characterized, for example, the action of the Comando dos Trabalhadores Intelectuais and the Revista Civilização Brasileira between 1963-1968, in which the formation of a heterogeneous field with disputes of projects is established, with debate of ideas that had favored the formation of a critical and including cultural sphere.


2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (9) ◽  
pp. 1335-1359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Fleer

This article summarizes the findings of the contributions collected in the special issue “The Technology of Information, Communication, and Administration—An Entwined History” dedicated to the accelerated mechanization and the later digitization of administrative information processing in the 20th century. It develops a conceptual framework around the notions of administration, process, information, media, and power that allow for situating the contributions within the broad field of interaction spanned by the materiality of hybrid administrative processes and the ideological dynamics in society. It suggests promising lines of research for further studies in the history of administration and information.


Urban History ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Harding

Music – as many of the contributors to this special issue of Urban History point out – is an important component of the urban experience and can play a significant role in the construction of a civic identity, and yet it is a topic that urban historians have tended to overlook. There are some parallels with the case of the fine arts, to which a special issue of this journal was devoted in 1995, both in the causes for this neglect – which similarly include ‘the intimidating traditions of connoisseurship associated with the field’ and the difficulty we have with analysing the ‘aesthetic experience’ – and in the developments which are helping to overcome such inhibitions. So far, the impulse seems to be coming from musicologists and music historians, who, inhabiting a fairly small corner of the academic field, are fully conscious of the need to forge connections with other disciplines and historiographical traditions. The importance of contextualizing and historicizing not only the composition but also the production, transmission and reception of music has been recognized for some time, but so far urban historians have not responded as perhaps the music historians thought they might to the insights and openings that a musical ‘new historicism’ seems to offer. But there is clearly an opportunity – indeed, a pressing need – to develop a broadly-based cultural history of towns and cities in which music will take its place. The aim of this special issue is to promote that objective by illustrating the state of the art and suggesting some of the ideas, tools and methodologies with which it might be developed in future.


2021 ◽  
pp. 095269512098407
Author(s):  
Peter Cryle ◽  
Elizabeth Stephens

This article introduces a collection of articles written in response to a recently published intellectual and cultural history of normality by Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens. It points to the fact that this special issue considerably extends and enriches the topical range of the book. The articles that follow discuss, in order, schooling in France at the time of the Revolution, phrenology in Europe and the US from 1840 to 1940, relations between commercial practice and scientific craniometry in 19th-century Britain and France, psychology in late 19th-century France, case studies in sexology and psychoanalysis in Central Europe, and biotypology in Southern Europe and Latin America.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexia Yates ◽  
Erika Vause

Abstract— What communication has there been—and should there be—between the history of modern France and the new history of capitalism? In this introduction to a special issue, the authors trace the recent development of a new scholarly interest in the history of capitalism, outlining the ways that this field intersects with existing research on the history of economic life in nineteenth-century France and suggesting how historians of France can push this scholarship into new directions. In particular, French history’s global turn, the strength of historiography on consumerism and marketization, the place of (revolutionary) property in law and culture and the significance of cultural history represent particular vectors through which the history of nineteenth-century France and the new history of capitalism can develop.


2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-207
Author(s):  
Jeremy E. Taylor ◽  
Zhiyi Yang

Abstract This paper provides a ‘state of the field’ view of what the authors refer to as the ‘new cultural history’ of Japanese-occupied China. It explores how this small but growing field is beginning to provide new perspectives on questions of ‘collaboration’ and ‘resistance’ that have dominated many recent studies of wartime China. In addition, the authors argue that more research needs to focus on elite forms of Chinese cultural expression under occupation (a topic which has hitherto eluded serious academic scrutiny). This introduction also introduces the four key papers which make up this special issue.


1989 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-413
Author(s):  
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