Toward A Global Community Of Historians The International Historical Congresses And The International Committee Of Historical Sciences, 1898-2000

Globalization presents major challenges to scholars of history. Different variants of global history and world history compete with, and transform, more traditional approaches of national, regional, and local scope, accompanied by new forms of international and transcultural cooperation. However, as this book shows, these transnational trends in the historical discipline are not without precedent. Based on painstaking research, this volume reconstructs the history of the International Congresses of Historians from the first one in The Hague, 1898, to the nineteenth in Oslo, 2000. It also tells the story of the International Committee of the Historical Sciences, the world organization of historians, which was founded, with much American support, in 1926 and today includes 54 national committees and 28 affiliated international organizations from all parts of the world. Karl Dietrich Erdmann, former president of this organization, covered the story up to 1985. Wolfgang J. Mommsen continued it into the twenty-first century.Erdmann, Karl Dietrich is the author of 'Toward A Global Community Of Historians The International Historical Congresses And The International Committee Of Historical Sciences, 1898-2000', published 2005 under ISBN 9781571814340 and ISBN 1571814345.