Mehl examines the way in which government interests, indigenous traditions of scholarship, impulses from the West and the rise of the modern nation state combined to shape the modern academic discipline of history in Japan. The focus of her study is on the Historiographical Institute at the University of Tokyo. This research institute was originally a government office established to compile an official national history to legitimize the new imperial government, which replaced shogunal rule in 1868. When the Office moved to the Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo) in 1888, its leading members helped establish history as an independent academic discipline. Particular attention is given to the relationship between history for national identity. The history of modern historical scholarship in Japan can be regarded as contemporaneous with the west, rather than in terms of Japan "following" western example.
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Unintended Affinities analyzes how German and Polish nationalistic historians, who played central roles in propagandizing a glorious past that justified a centralized modern state, struggled with how to portray the very decentralized and multi-ethnic empires that preceded their time.
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• Der "politische Professor" / Peter Wende
• Politische Historie - Macaulay und einige seiner deutschen Zeitgenossen / Hans Christof Kraus
• Friedrich Christoph Schlosser und die Berliner Schule / Dagmar Stegmüller
• Die Frei-Räume der Historie. Anmerkungen zu Aufstieg und Fall der "Historisch-politischen Zeitschrift" Rankes / Siegfried Baur
• Wieviel Gegenwart verträgt historisches Urteilen? Die Kontroverse zwischen Heinrich von Sybel und Julius Ficker über die Bewertung der Kaiserpolitik des Mittelalters (1859-1862) / Thomas Brechenmacher
• Der junge Burckhardt im Kontext: Geschichtswissenschaft als Gegenwartskunst / Philipp Müller
• Neue Ansätze der Kulturgeschichte zwischen 1830 und
• 1900. Zivilisationsgeschichte und Naturgesetze. Darwinismus und Kulturbiologismus / Hans Schleier
• Zur Situation der Naturwissenschaften in Deutschland in der zweiten Hälfte des
• 19. Jahrhunderts / Frank Linhard
• Eminent Victorians und die britische Zivilisationsgeschichtsschreibung in der Epoche der Historisierung / Benedikt Stuchtey
• Naturalisierte Kulturgeschichte und politische Geschichtsschreibung / Christian Mehr
• Evolution, Entropie und Reizsamkeit. Naturwissenschaftliche Kategorien im Lamprecht-Streit / Thomas Mergel.

• 18th-century Ireland - colony or ancient regime?, Sean Connelly-- the context and causes of the '98 rebellion, Kevin Whelan-- the union and its consequences, Liam Kennedy-- the great famine, Mary Daly-- Irish nationalism, John Hutchinson-- Irish unionism, Alvin Jackson-- Land - the revisionist controversy, Paul Bew-- 1916 - the meaning of a rising, George Boyce-- British policy and Ireland, Alan O'Day-- literature, nationalism and society, John Kelly.
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• Introduction George Boyce and Alan O'Day
• 1. Eighteenth Century Ireland: Colony or Ancient Regime? Sean Connelly, Ulster
• 2. The Context and Causes of the '98 Rebellion Kevin Whelan, University College, Dublin
• 3. The Union and its Consequences Liam Kennedy, Queen's University, Belfast 4.The Great Famine Mary Daly, University College, Dublin 5.Irish Nationalism John Hutchinson, Griffith University, Australia 6.Irish Unionism Alvin Jackson, Queen's University, Belfast
• 7. Land: the revisionist controversy Paul Bew, Queen's University, Belfast
• 8.
• 1916: the meaning of a rising George Boyce, University College, Swansea
• 9. British Policy and Ireland Alan O'Day, North London
• 10. Literature, Nationalism and Society John Kelly, Oxford.
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Revisionism has been an important issue in Irish history for seve years, as more or less partisan accounts of the Irish past have been rewritten and "rescued" by journalists and historians of different political persuasions. This text brings together distinguished historians from Ireland. Each contributor tackles a key question, issue or event in Irish history and examines its historiography, assessess the context of new interpretations, considers the strengths and weaknesses of revisionist ideas and offers their own interpretation. The introduction outlines the history of the revisionist controversy and places Ireland within a historical and contemporary context.
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• The problem with "China's response to the West"
• Moving beyond "Tradition and modernity"
• Imperialism : reality or myth?
• Toward a China-centered history of China.

Since its first publication, Paul A. Cohen's Discovering History in China has occupied a singular place in American China scholarship. Translated into three East Asian languages, the volume has become essential to the study of China from the early nineteenth century to today.Cohen critiques the work of leading postwar scholars and is especially adamant about not reading China through the lens of Western history. To this end, he uncovers the strong ethnocentric bias pervading the three major conceptual frameworks of American scholarship of the 1950s and 1960s: the impact-response, modernization, and imperialism approaches. In place of these, Cohen favors a "China-centered" approach in which historians understand Chinese history on its own terms, paying close attention to Chinese historical trajectories and Chinese perceptions of their problems, rather than a set of expectations derived from Western history. In an important new introduction, Cohen reflects on his fifty-year career as a historian of China and discusses major recent trends in the field. Although some of these developments challenge a narrowly conceived China-centered approach, insofar as they enable more balanced comparisons between China and the West and recast the Chinese and their history in more human, less exotic terms, they powerfully affirm the central thrust of Cohen's work.
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• Ch.
• 1. Rossĭskai͡a imperii͡a (konet͡s XIX v.-1917 g.)