Matthias Middell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1235305 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthias Middell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthias |
| FAMILY NAME | Middell |
| SIGNATURE | MIDDELL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leipzig University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4953-501X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Walter Markov Prize
Roger Chickering, Karl Lamprecht. Das Leben eines deutschen Historikers (1856–1915). Stuttgart, Steiner 2020
Article Roger Chickering, Karl Lamprecht. Das Leben eines deutschen Historikers (1856–1915). Stuttgart, Steiner 2020 was published on April 1, 2022 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 314, issue 2)
Karl Lamprecht, Wilhelm Wundt et le positivisme leipzigois au tournant du xixe et du xxe siècle
Un groupe de professeurs, dont le psychologue Wilhelm Wundt et l’historien Karl Lamprecht ont longtemps constitué le noyau, a très fortement marqué les sciences humaines et sociales à l’université de Leipzig entre 1890 et 1914 et est désigné dans l’historiographie comme le cercle positiviste (Positivistenkränzchen). L’article aborde les principaux thèmes et les fondements épistémologiques de ce positivisme et montre sur quoi reposait l’influence …
From Universal History to Transregional Perspectives
The article reconstructs the development of global history since the crisis of universal history in the 1970s, which under the weight of poststructuralist arguments had almost brought world history writing to a standstill. In contrast, the new approach, now labelled global history, which had taken up many of the suggestions of the cultural and spatial turn and coincided with the social interest in global connectivity, developed into an extraordin…
Production, Destruction, and Connection from 1750 to the Present. Part I
The Cambridge World History as a Result of the Generational Effort to Renew World History Writing. Introduction
Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Begriff und Vorstellung des »Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalts« deuten auf einen komplexen Gegenstand, der in all seinen Facetten von einer einzigen Disziplin kaum gefasst werden kann. Um die sozialen Herausforderungen der Gegenwart zu analysieren, ist daher ein interdisziplinäres Zusammenwirken erforderlich. Das im Jahr 2020 neu gegründete »Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt« nimmt diese Aufgabe an. Die Autor_innen dieses Bandes g…
The French Revolution as a Moment of Respatialization
The French Revolution has primarily been understood as a national event that also had a lasting impact in Europe and in the Atlantic world. Recently, historiography has increasingly emphasized how France’s overseas colonies also influenced the contours of the French Revolution. This volume examines the effects of both dimensions on the reorganization of spatial formats and spatial orders in France and in other societies. It departs from the assum…
French Revolution As a Moment of Respatialization
Narratives about globalization
As is well known, ‘globalization’ developed during and after the late 1980s into a central term for the explanation of recent social change. International studies have a long institutional history within the realm of political science and international relations (IR), with first chairs already established following the First World War. It became a distinct field in its own right as a reaction to post-Cold War politics in the 1990s. Even though in…
Methods in transregional studies
Comparative historiography – particularly prominent in the 1970s and 1980s when coming into contact with comparative sociology and the then newly emerging subdiscipline of international relations called comparative politics – forms a solid basis for the more recent interest in transregional studies. Exploring so far neglected areas, transregional studies aimed at using such regional case studies for generalizations based upon a more and more soph…
Transregional studies
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines a series of approaches and topics that exist across disciplines and area studies dealing with transregional phenomena as well as promoting a transregional perspective. It addresses the roots of transregional studies in the long history of dealing with other parts of the world and the methodological challenge that arises …
The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies
The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies brings together the various fields within which transregional phenomena are scientifically observed and analysed. This handbook presents the theoretical and methodological potential of such studies for the advancement of the conceptualization of global and area-bound developments. \n \nFollowing three decades of intense debate about globalization and transnationalism, it has become clear that border…
Are Transregional Studies the Future of Area Studies
This chapter discusses several implications of the recent Area Studies debate, including the hypothesis that Area Studies are likely to become global studies in light of the increasingly observed mobility of goods, ideas, people, and capital across conventional boundaries. Insisting on the continued relevance of regions and observing that different generations of area or regional studies not only coexist but also interact, while successive histor…
Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History
Multiple Secularities Beyond the West
Questions of secularity and modernity have become globalized, but most studies still focus on the West. This volume breaks new ground by comparatively exploring developments in five areas of the world, some of which were hitherto situated at the margins of international scholarly discussions: Africa, the Arab World, East Asia, South Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe. In theoretical terms, the book examines three key dimensions of modern secula…
From Professionalisation to Global Ambitions
Over the past twenty years, the history of historiography has developed into an increasingly professionalised field within general history writing. At the same time, its narrow focus on national historiography has been acknowledged. This review essay places Daniel Woolf’s A Global History of History (2011) in the context of new directions in global history and the history of historiography. Woolf’s main goal is to rehabilitate the non-European pa…
Cycle révolutionnaire et histoire globale
After a few years dominated by doubt as to the possible end of the age of revolutions, the revolution is back once again, both as a societal process and as a problem for history and the social sciences. The article poses the question of the continuity between the revolutions which, over the past twenty or thirty years, have shaken Central and Eastern Europe and the Arab world; but it questions, in parallel, the possibilities of providing in the c…
“Pirenne and Co.”
How far were the Belgian historians eager to dialog with historians from other countries before the First World War? This question points out a twofold process: First, the internationalization of the Belgian historiography aimed at building an international community of historians involved in common projects of dictionaries, sources edition and books series. Second, this internationalization served the purposes of creating an internationally comp…
Geschichte der Universität Unter den Linden 1810–2010
Die "Alma Mater Berolinensis" wurde auf Initiative Wilhelm von Humboldts durch König Friedrich Wilhelm III am 16. August 1809 gegründet und nahm 1810 ihren Forschungs- und Lehrbetrieb auf. Von 1828 bis 1945 führte sie den Namen "Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität", seit 1949 ist sie die Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Die Berliner Universität gewann ihre herausragende Eigenständigkeit mit der Durchsetzung des Forschungsimperativs in der wissenschaftl…
Global history and the spatial turn
Globalization can be interpreted as a dialectical process of de- and re-territorialization. The challenges to existing borders that limit economic, socio-cultural, and political activities, and the establishment of new borders as the result of such activities, bring about certain consolidated structures of spatiality, while at the same time societies develop regulatory regimes to use these structures for purposes of dominance and integration. Glo…
The Global Proletariat after the Model of the Doubly Free Wage Labourer
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World Orders in World Histories before and after World War I
Historical arguments have always played an important role in debates on world order. In this context the question of continuities and discontinuities has often been a contested issue, and so has the necessity to choose between threatening and promising historical trajectories as well as between obsolete and promising elements of the past. Since interpretations of the past figured so prominently in debates about world order, theoretical and method…
Histoire universelle, histoire globale, transfert culturel
Quand on considère la discussion sur l’histoire universelle dans l’Allemagne de 1800, on observe une remarquable affinité entre les auteurs de cette époque autour, de l’historien de Leipzig Karl Lamprecht, et l’idée de transfert culturel propre à la fin du xxe siècle. L’article tente d’expliquer qu’avec un écart d’un siècle des intérêts et sensibilités comparables se manifestent et qu’entre les deux conjonctures l’attention portée aux transferts …
Francophonia as a World Region
This article tests the hypothesis that Francophonia is a world region. It analyses whether Francophonia stands in fact for all territories with a significant number of Francophones and/or with historical ties to French culture or whether it is primarily a multilateral organisation with more than 50 member states in Europe, Africa, Asia and Northern America. At the same time the problems caused by these two overlapping definitions for research are…
Global history and the spatial turn
Globalization can be interpreted as a dialectical process of de- and re-territorialization. The challenges to existing borders that limit economic, socio-cultural, and political activities, and the establishment of new borders as the result of such activities, bring about certain consolidated structures of spatiality, while at the same time societies develop regulatory regimes to use these structures for purposes of dominance and integration. Glo…
The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies
The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies brings together the various fields within which transregional phenomena are scientifically observed and analysed. This handbook presents the theoretical and methodological potential of such studies for the advancement of the conceptualization of global and area-bound developments. \n \nFollowing three decades of intense debate about globalization and transnationalism, it has become clear that border…
From Professionalisation to Global Ambitions
Over the past twenty years, the history of historiography has developed into an increasingly professionalised field within general history writing. At the same time, its narrow focus on national historiography has been acknowledged. This review essay places Daniel Woolf’s A Global History of History (2011) in the context of new directions in global history and the history of historiography. Woolf’s main goal is to rehabilitate the non-European pa…
Geschichte der Universität Unter den Linden 1810–2010
Die "Alma Mater Berolinensis" wurde auf Initiative Wilhelm von Humboldts durch König Friedrich Wilhelm III am 16. August 1809 gegründet und nahm 1810 ihren Forschungs- und Lehrbetrieb auf. Von 1828 bis 1945 führte sie den Namen "Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität", seit 1949 ist sie die Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Die Berliner Universität gewann ihre herausragende Eigenständigkeit mit der Durchsetzung des Forschungsimperativs in der wissenschaftl…
La Saxe et la France
La région et les modes de réalisation de l’identité nationale entretiennent dans les traditions française et allemande des rapports très différents. Il y a donc là le risque de voir naître des malentendus et des asymétries. La Saxe qui par suite de l’union avec la Pologne mais aussi de l’importance de son commerce international constitue une région exportatrice ainsi que le centre éditorial dans l’Empire allemand et est très largement marquée par…
Who Are We? Who Are We Supposed to Be
There is no shortage of analyses, even of mutually exclusive ones, concerning the identities of the East Germans. Social scientists as well as journalists find enticing the phenomenon of a society that is in the midst of a transformation; a society that experiences the (national) unification between a part of society that is revolutionary with another part that is geographically separate and non-revolutionary while undergoing a process of social …
Méthodes de l'historiographie culturelle
L’historien de la culture Karl Lamprecht est l’un des historiens allemands les plus connus, et plusieurs travaux lui ont été consacrés au cours des dernières années. Néanmoins on rencontre dans nombre de ces livres et articles l’idée selon laquelle il aurait été très isolé après la querelle des historiens des années 1890, l’idée selon laquelle ses écrits n’auraient guère eu d’impact sur la théorie historiographique. L’article veut montrer que Lam…
Jalons bibliographiques. Les approches allemandes récentes de l’histoire culturelle
Nous ferons trois remarques au sujet des critères de choix de cette bibliographie : — La première concerne l’exhaustivité à laquelle on pourrait éventuellement s’attendre. Une telle prétention serait mal à propos, pas seulement pour des raisons de place. Nous abordons en effet avec Lamprecht un champ ouvert de recherche et de débat méthodologique. Par ailleurs, le concept d’histoire culturelle paraît nous inviter à présenter avant tout des travau…
European History and Cultural Transfer
The European community that is in the process of being created is still searching for its history. For a few years now, the publishing market, which has been attempting - under the heading of 'European history' - to construct a shared past for a present that we now have in common, has been mushrooming. This communal experience is indisputably gaining ground (though more slowly and controversially than some well-known optimists hoped): it is promo…
Francophonia as a World Region
This article tests the hypothesis that Francophonia is a world region. It analyses whether Francophonia stands in fact for all territories with a significant number of Francophones and/or with historical ties to French culture or whether it is primarily a multilateral organisation with more than 50 member states in Europe, Africa, Asia and Northern America. At the same time the problems caused by these two overlapping definitions for research are…
Divided in Unity
Histoire universelle, histoire globale, transfert culturel
Quand on considère la discussion sur l’histoire universelle dans l’Allemagne de 1800, on observe une remarquable affinité entre les auteurs de cette époque autour, de l’historien de Leipzig Karl Lamprecht, et l’idée de transfert culturel propre à la fin du xxe siècle. L’article tente d’expliquer qu’avec un écart d’un siècle des intérêts et sensibilités comparables se manifestent et qu’entre les deux conjonctures l’attention portée aux transferts …
World Orders in World Histories before and after World War I
Historical arguments have always played an important role in debates on world order. In this context the question of continuities and discontinuities has often been a contested issue, and so has the necessity to choose between threatening and promising historical trajectories as well as between obsolete and promising elements of the past. Since interpretations of the past figured so prominently in debates about world order, theoretical and method…
Global history and the spatial turn
Globalization can be interpreted as a dialectical process of de- and re-territorialization. The challenges to existing borders that limit economic, socio-cultural, and political activities, and the establishment of new borders as the result of such activities, bring about certain consolidated structures of spatiality, while at the same time societies develop regulatory regimes to use these structures for purposes of dominance and integration. Glo…
The Global Proletariat after the Model of the Doubly Free Wage Labourer
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
“Pirenne and Co.”
How far were the Belgian historians eager to dialog with historians from other countries before the First World War? This question points out a twofold process: First, the internationalization of the Belgian historiography aimed at building an international community of historians involved in common projects of dictionaries, sources edition and books series. Second, this internationalization served the purposes of creating an internationally comp…
Geschichte der Universität Unter den Linden 1810–2010
Die "Alma Mater Berolinensis" wurde auf Initiative Wilhelm von Humboldts durch König Friedrich Wilhelm III am 16. August 1809 gegründet und nahm 1810 ihren Forschungs- und Lehrbetrieb auf. Von 1828 bis 1945 führte sie den Namen "Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität", seit 1949 ist sie die Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Die Berliner Universität gewann ihre herausragende Eigenständigkeit mit der Durchsetzung des Forschungsimperativs in der wissenschaftl…
From Professionalisation to Global Ambitions
Over the past twenty years, the history of historiography has developed into an increasingly professionalised field within general history writing. At the same time, its narrow focus on national historiography has been acknowledged. This review essay places Daniel Woolf’s A Global History of History (2011) in the context of new directions in global history and the history of historiography. Woolf’s main goal is to rehabilitate the non-European pa…
Cycle révolutionnaire et histoire globale
After a few years dominated by doubt as to the possible end of the age of revolutions, the revolution is back once again, both as a societal process and as a problem for history and the social sciences. The article poses the question of the continuity between the revolutions which, over the past twenty or thirty years, have shaken Central and Eastern Europe and the Arab world; but it questions, in parallel, the possibilities of providing in the c…
Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History
Multiple Secularities Beyond the West
Questions of secularity and modernity have become globalized, but most studies still focus on the West. This volume breaks new ground by comparatively exploring developments in five areas of the world, some of which were hitherto situated at the margins of international scholarly discussions: Africa, the Arab World, East Asia, South Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe. In theoretical terms, the book examines three key dimensions of modern secula…
Are Transregional Studies the Future of Area Studies
This chapter discusses several implications of the recent Area Studies debate, including the hypothesis that Area Studies are likely to become global studies in light of the increasingly observed mobility of goods, ideas, people, and capital across conventional boundaries. Insisting on the continued relevance of regions and observing that different generations of area or regional studies not only coexist but also interact, while successive histor…
Narratives about globalization
As is well known, ‘globalization’ developed during and after the late 1980s into a central term for the explanation of recent social change. International studies have a long institutional history within the realm of political science and international relations (IR), with first chairs already established following the First World War. It became a distinct field in its own right as a reaction to post-Cold War politics in the 1990s. Even though in…
Methods in transregional studies
Comparative historiography – particularly prominent in the 1970s and 1980s when coming into contact with comparative sociology and the then newly emerging subdiscipline of international relations called comparative politics – forms a solid basis for the more recent interest in transregional studies. Exploring so far neglected areas, transregional studies aimed at using such regional case studies for generalizations based upon a more and more soph…
Transregional studies
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines a series of approaches and topics that exist across disciplines and area studies dealing with transregional phenomena as well as promoting a transregional perspective. It addresses the roots of transregional studies in the long history of dealing with other parts of the world and the methodological challenge that arises …
The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies
The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies brings together the various fields within which transregional phenomena are scientifically observed and analysed. This handbook presents the theoretical and methodological potential of such studies for the advancement of the conceptualization of global and area-bound developments. \n \nFollowing three decades of intense debate about globalization and transnationalism, it has become clear that border…
The French Revolution as a Moment of Respatialization
The French Revolution has primarily been understood as a national event that also had a lasting impact in Europe and in the Atlantic world. Recently, historiography has increasingly emphasized how France’s overseas colonies also influenced the contours of the French Revolution. This volume examines the effects of both dimensions on the reorganization of spatial formats and spatial orders in France and in other societies. It departs from the assum…
French Revolution As a Moment of Respatialization
From Universal History to Transregional Perspectives
The article reconstructs the development of global history since the crisis of universal history in the 1970s, which under the weight of poststructuralist arguments had almost brought world history writing to a standstill. In contrast, the new approach, now labelled global history, which had taken up many of the suggestions of the cultural and spatial turn and coincided with the social interest in global connectivity, developed into an extraordin…
Political science (13 works) · Art (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · History (10 works) · Humanities (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · European Political History Analysis (5 works) · World history (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works)