Writing Political History Today

Willibald Steinmetz, Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt

• Publisher: Campus Verlag
• Year: 2013
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783593419886
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: History Reference
• Index: History

Die neue Politikgeschichte hat die enge Definition von »Politik« hinter sich gelassen. Die Autorinnen und Autoren des Bandes verstehen das Politische als einen dynamischen Kommunikationsraum, dessen Grenzen und Inhalte beständig ausgehandelt werden – durch verbale, symbolische und teils auch gewalthafte Kommunikation. Diese Grenzziehungen und Kommunikationsformen werden an ausgewählten Beispielen dargestellt, um schließlich die Frage zu beantworten, was auf der Agenda einer künftigen historischen Politikforschung stehen sollte.

Table of contents

• Contents
• I. Introduction
• The Political as Communicative Space in History: The Bielefeld Approach - Willibald Steinmetz and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt
• II. Contested Concepts: »Politics« and »the Political«
• Introduction - Willibald Steinmetz
• From »Interest« to the »Political«: Speaking of Ruling and Reigning in Early Modern Europe – Martin Papenheim
• From a Despised French Word to a Dominant Concept: The Evolution of »Politics« in Swedish and Finnish Parliamentary Debates – Pasi Ihalainen
• What Did They Mean by Política? Debating over the Concept, Value, and Place of Politics in Modern Spain – Javier Fernández Sebastián
• Navigating Around Politics: British Progressive Thought and the »Political« in an Expanding Transnational Perspective – Michael Freeden
• III. Boundary Disputes: The Political and Other Spheres
• Introduction – Heinz-Gerhard Haupt
• Drawing Boundaries between Politics and Religion: Early Modern Politics Revisited – Matthias Pohlig
• Political Economy and Statistics in the Late Ancien Régime – Lars Behrisch
• Laws as the Basis and Object of Political Communication – Christoph Gusy
• Depoliticalisation of the Private Life? Reflections on Private Practices and the Political in the Late Soviet Union – Kirsten Bönker
• Moving across Boundaries: Rudolf Virchow between Medicine and Politics – Tobias Weidner
• IV. Violence: Means, Object or End of Political Communication?
• Introduction – Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey
• »Catholic and Breton Forever«: Violence and the Visual in Early Twentieth-Century France – Eveline G. Bouwers
• The Limits of the Legitimate: The Quarrel over »Violence« between Autonomist Groups and the German Authorities – Freia Anders and Alexander Sedlmaier
• Vie chère, Violent Protest, and Visions of Protection: The Vie chère Controversy on the Eve of WWI in France (1905–1914) – Marcel Streng
• V. Epilogue: Moving beyond the »New« Political History
• Writing Political History after the »Iconic Turn« – Bettina Brandt
• The Political, the State, and Governance: Reflections on Essentially Contested Concepts – Thomas Risse
• Historical Politics Research – Luise Schorn-Schütte
• The Opening Up of Political History – Henk te Velde
• Political History Matters: Everyday Life, Things, and Practices – Frank Trentmann
• Notes on Contributors