Thesen und Überlegungen zu einer transnationalen Geschichte der Schweiz By Jakob Tanner

https://www.academia.edu/44048381/Thesen_und_%C3%9Cberlegungen_zu_einer_transnationalen_Geschichte_der_Schweiz?email_work_card=title Transnational history is a perspective that allows a new understanding of the emergence, consolidation, and the many challenges of nation states, defining them as a product of interactions across boundaries and as an effect of transcultural exchange. Such an entangled history must meet three expectations: Frist, it is necessary to develop an adequate understanding of the dynamics of historical change. Transnational historiography must not be limited to economic and cultural transfers but must consider the interdependent transformation of nation states in the course of their mutual intertwining. Secondly, such an approach must promote a new research practice that combines international mobility and networking and widens the source base beyond national borders. Thirdly, a transnational history requires a complex tram model that makes it possible to overcome rigid epochal boundaries so that the period under study is extended back behind the formation of the nation state. ...