Explorations in Comparative History

ix, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Outlines for comparative history proposed by practicing historians / Benjamin Z. Kedar -- Comparative history: methodology and ethos / Jürgen Kocka -- Comparative history: the pivot of historiography / Diego Olstein -- The scope of comparison: the Roman, Spanish and Inca empires / Sabine MacCormack -- The meeting of worlds: did early modern expansion lead to globalization? / Tamar Herzog -- Questions of comparability: Russian serfdom and American slavery / Michael Confino -- Eighteenth-century globalization: renewal and reform in Islam / Nehemia Levtzion -- The modern Japanese political system -- a comparative view / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Globalization and the welfare state / Peter Baldwin -- The use of feudalism in comparative history / Susan Reynolds -- Teaching comparative history: a course on Christian, Muslim and Jewish women in medieval times / Elisheva Baumgarten, Esther Cohen and Ruth Roded.