"The influential readings contained in this volume combine conceptual history - the history of words and languages - and global history, showing clearly how the two disciplines can benefit from a combined approach. The readings familiarize the reader with conceptual history and its relationship with global history, looking at transfers between nations and languages as well as the ways in which world-views are created and transported through language. Part One: Classical Texts presents the three foundational texts for conceptual history, giving the reader a grasp of the origins of the discipline. Part Two: Challenges focuses on critiques of the approach and explores their ongoing relevance today. Part Three: Translations of Concepts provides examples of conceptual history in practice, via case studies of historical research with a global scope. Finally, the book's concluding essay examines the current state and the future potential of conceptual history. This original introduction provides the students of conceptual, global and intellectual history with a firm grasp of the past trajectories of conceptual history as well as its more recent global and transnational tendencies, and the promises and challenges of writing global history"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

History of concepts and global history / Margrit Pernau and Dominic Sachsenmaier -- Part I. Classical Texts in Conceptual History: 1. Introduction (Einleitung) to the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe / Reinhart Koselleck; 2. Social history and conceptual history / Reinhart Koselleck; 3. For a socio-historical semantics as a middle course between "lexicometry" and "conceptual history" / Rolf Reichardt -- Part II. Challenges: 4. Conceptual history or a history of discourse? on the theoretical basis and questions historically semantic epistemologies / Dietrich Busse; 5. Rhetoric and conceptual change / Quentin Skinner -- Part III. Translations of Concepts: 6. Translation as cultural transfer and semantic interaction: European variations of liberal between 1800 and 1830 / Jörn Leonhard; 7. Translation, politics and conceptual change / Kari Palonen; 8. The question of meaning-value in the political economy of the sign / Lydia H. Liu; 9. The resonance of 'Culture': framing a problem in global concept-history / Andrew Sartori; 10. The conceptualization of the social in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Arabic thought and language / Ilham Khuri-Makdisi; 11. Ustaarabu: a conceptual change in Tanganyikan newspaper discourse in the 1920s / Katrin Bromber; 12. Pictures, emotions, conceptual change: anger in popular Hindi cinema / Imke Rajamani -- Part IV. Outlook: 13. Forty years of conceptual history: the state of the art / Willibald Steinmetz.

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