The seminar, as indicated in the title, complements the general course of historiography with a detailed discussion of all those historical debates, which related the general paradigms of European or world history to the specific problems of the historical region called East-Central Europe. Conversely, there are also several cases, when the specific interpretations of the history of this region gave rise to the formulation of a more general historical or theoretic problem. Combining readings from various subfields of historical studies (political history, social history, historical anthropology, cultural history, intellectual history), the course provides an insight into some of the national historiographical traditions and also into using a trans-national approach to the study of the region.
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