Dieser Band prasentiert die Beitrage des ersten einer Reihe von Kollquien zur Berliner Akademiegeschichte vom November 1997, in dessen Vordergrund Fragen nach der Stellung der Preussischen Akademie im Kontext der anderen deutschen Gelehrtensozietaten in der Zeit des Kaiserreichs wie auch im Kontext des Aufstiegs der Berliner Universitat und der damals entstehenden ausseruniversitaren Forschungseinrichtungen wie der Physikalisch-Technischen Reichsanstalt und der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft standen."

The volume makes available to English readers an important ongoing discussion centred in Germany but having clear connections with international developments in historiography. European History Quarterly

The essay offers an excellent and nuanced discussion of comparative history's fundamental assumptions and approaches, its strengths and weaknesses, its possibilities and limits...Scholars or students looking to refresh their understanding of the methods and challenges of comparative history and to learn how German historians discuss transnational approaches will find much...

Since the 1970s West German historiography has been one of the main arenas of international comparative history. It has produced important empirical studies particularly in social history as well as methodological and theoretical reflections on comparative history. During the last twenty years however, this approach has felt pressure from two sources: cultural historical approaches, which stress microhistory and the construction of cultural transfer on the one hand, global history and transnational approaches with emphasis on connected history on the other. This volume introduces the reader...