Entangled Histories and Negotiated Universals

Download or read book Entangled Histories and Negotiated Universals written by Wolf Lepenies and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2003 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entangled Histories and Negotiated Universals explores the changing field of local histories. Young researchers from around the world--including scholars from Canada, Mozambique, China, and Germany, representing fields as diverse as history, linguistics, political science, anthropology, medicine, and materials science--present their findings, all of which coincide in their understanding that local histories are inseparably intertwined and that, fundamentally, all history is the history of relationships.