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As Chapter 4 begins, a plethora of comparative historical studies have already been presented and analyzed while discussing the comparative–connective rift as well as in the exposition of the comparative method. As a quick reminder, and in chronological order, the following works on comparative history were addressed: the stark contrast between Sumerian and Egyptian civilizations; Ronald Syme’s study on colonial elites in the Roman, Spanish, and British empires, and Peter Brunt’s comparison of the Roman and British empires in order to reach an understanding of imperial endurance;1 the vast comparative history literature contrasting the Spanish and British empires, and the underlying crucial differences that led to the divergent paths taken by Spanish and British America; John Elliott’s Richelieu and Olivares that contrasts the biographies of both statesmen; Woodward’s edited collection, The Comparative Approach to American History, that sought to shed new light on the understanding of American history by way of contrasting it with the history of Europe; the comparative study of colonial emancipation across the Spanish Empire in the Americas; and B. Z. Kedar’s The Changing Land: Between Jordan and the Sea, in which matched aerial photographs of rural and urban landscapes in Palestine and Israel, dating from the First World War, the 1940s, the late 1960s, and the 1990s, are offered for comparative analysis.2
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Ronald Syme, Colonial Elites: Rome, Spain and the Americas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958);
P. A. Brunt, “Reflections on British and Roman Imperialism,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 7 (1964–65): 267–88;
William H. McNeill, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (London: New English Library, 1963).
C. Vann Woodward., ed., The Comparative Approach to American History (New York: Basic Books, 1968);
David Russo, American History from a Global Perspective (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2003);
Ian R. Tyrrell, Transnational Nation: United States History in Global Perspective Since 1789 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007);
Philip D. Morgan and Molly A. Warsh, eds., Early North America in Global Perspective (New York: Routledge, 2014);
B. Z. Kedar, The Changing Land: Between the Jordan and the Sea; Aerial Photographs from 1917 to the Present (Israel, 1999);
John H. Elliott, Richelieu and Olivares (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), 6.
Alexandre Eck, “La société Jean Bodin pour l’histoire comparative des institutions,” Recueils de la Société Jean Bodin 1 (1958): 7–9.
Sylvia Thrupp, “Editorial,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 1 (1958–59): 1–4.
Sanjay Subrahmanyan, “Connected Histories: Notes Towards a Reconfiguration of Early Modern Eurasia,” Modern Asian Studies 31, no. 3 (1997): 735–62.
Micole Seigel, “Beyond Compare: Comparative Method after the Transnational Turn,” Radical History Review 91 (2005): 62–90.
Serge Gruzinski, “Les mondes mêlés de la Monarchie catholique et autres ‘connected histories,’” Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales 56, no. 1 (2001): 85–117.
Leon Trotsky, Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going?, trans. Max Eastman (North Chelmsford: Courier Dover Publications, 2004).
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Schocken Books, 2004);
Hans Buchheim, Totalitarian Rule: Its Nature and Characteristics, trans. Ruth Hein (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1968).
Michael Curtis, Totalitarianism (New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1979);
Carl J. Friedrich and Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956);
Leonard Schapiro, Totalitarianism (New York: Praeger, 1972);
Michael Halberstam, Totalitarianism and the Modern Conception of Politics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999).
Zeev Sternhell, “Fascism,” in International Fascism, ed. Roger Griffin (London: Arnold, 1998), 34.
Ian Kershaw and Moshe Lewin, Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977).
Michael Kellogg, The Russian Roots of Nazism: White Emigrés and the Making of National Socialism, 1917–1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005);
Michael David-Fox, Peter Holquist, and Alexander M. Martin, eds., Fascination and Enmity: Russia and Germany as Entangled Histories, 1914–1945 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012).
Several arguments in this section were previously published in Olstein, D. “Comparative History: The Pivot of Historiography”, in New Ventures in Comparative History, ed. B. Z. Kedar (Jerusalem, Magnes Press, 2009), 37–52.
J. H. Elliott, National and Comparative History. An Inaugural Lecture Delivered before the University of Oxford on 10 May 1991 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), 1–29.
For a detailed reading list on the historiographical, methodological, and theoretical contributions of comparative history see Deborah Cohen and Maura O’Connor, eds., Comparison and History: Europe in Cross-National Perspective (New York and London: Routledge, 2004), 181–85.
Marshal Hodgson, “Conditions of Historical Comparison Among Ages and Regions,” Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam, and World History, ed. Edmund Burke III (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993), 267–87.
Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).
Philip McMichael, “Incorporating Comparison within a World-Historical Perspective: An Alternative Comparative Method,” American Sociological Review 55 (1990): 385–97.
Christopher Chase-Dunn, “Cross-World-System Comparisons,” Civilizations and World Systems: Studying World-Historical Change (Walnut Creek, 1995); Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas Hall, Rise and Demise: Comparing World-Systems (Boulder, 1997).
Giovanni Arrighi, “The Global Market,” Journal of World-Systems Research 5, no. 2 (1999): 217–51;
Paul Bairoch, Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993);
Robert Feenstra, “Integration of Trade and Disintegration of Production in the Global Economy,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 12, no. 4 (1998): 31–50;
Jeffery Sachs et al., “Economic Reform and the Process of Global Integration,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1 (1995), 1–118;
George Soros, “The Capitalist Threat,” Atlantic Monthly 279, no. 2 (1997): 45–58;
George Soros, The Crisis of Global Capitalism (New York, 1998);
Jeffery Williamson, “Globalization and Inequality Then and Now: The Late 19th and Late 20th Centuries Compared,” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 5491 (Cambridge, 1996);
Philip McMichael, “World-System Analysis, Globalization, and Incorporated Comparison,” Journal of World-Systems Research 6, no. 3 (2000): 668–90.
Richard Baldwin and Philippe Martin, “Two Waves of Globalization: Superficial Similarities, Fundamental Differences,” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 6904 (Cambridge, 1999);
Michael Bordo et al., “Is Globalization Today Really Different than Globalization a Hundred Years Ago?” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 7195 (Cambridge, 1999);
Robert Chase, “The More Things Change...: Learning from Other Eras of ‘Unprecedented’ Globalization,” SAIS Review 20, no. 2 (2000): 223–29.
Jerry Bentley, “A New Forum for Global History,” Journal of World History 1 (1990): iii–v.
Stephen Hobden, International Relations and Historical Sociology: Breaking Down Boundaries (London and New York: Routledge, 1998);
L. Snyder, Macro-History: A Theoretical Approach to Comparative World History (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1999);
Haupt Heinz-Gerhard and Kocka Jürgen, eds., Comparative and Transnational History: Central European Approaches and New Perspectives (New York: Berghahn Books, 2009);
Benjamin H. Johnson and Andrew R. Graybill, eds., Bridging National Borders in North America: Transnational and Comparative Histories (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010).
Michael Geyer and Sheila Fitzpatrick, eds., Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
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Olstein, D. (2015). Thinking History Globally: Comparing and Connecting. In: Thinking History Globally. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137318145_5
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