Essays in Comparative History

By: R. Gregg

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Hardcover | 20 September 1999 | Edition Number 1

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Inside Out, Outside In takes familiar historical narratives and provides alternative readings for them. The work expands the parameters of comparative history by focusing on the economic, social, political and historiographical connections among societies, and by observing these intertwined histories from different vantage points. Viewing American history from the outside, it questions assumptions of American exceptionalism and some of the nationalist narratives on which these are based. Gazing outwards from inside the United States, it re-examines the emergence of social history, following its genealogy back through E. P. Thompson's work on the English working class to that of his father on British India. Simultaneously looking outwards and inwards, it considers the imperial assumptions underlying C. L. R. James's anti-colonial text, Beyond a Boundary. Iconoclastic, provocative and quirky, Inside Out, Outside In takes us beyond culture and society into the imperial webs of association found inside and outside the discipline of history.

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'In this far-ranging, irreverent and ultimately utopian study, Robert Gregg artfully proves that comparative history need not be two-dimensional - that it can and indeed must turn on several critical axes simultaneously, in part because the messiness of history as it plays itself out on a diversity of terrains requires a more resolutely anti-national approach than has heretofore been imagined. Inside Out, Outside In is a real romp through an impressive variety of literatures and historiographies which will have appeal to the generalist and specialist alike, precisely because it presumes readers are capable of appreciating the 'miscegenation of narratives' that the best kind of history-writing represents. Above all, Gregg's insistence that modern and even 'postcolonial' historiography is deeply implicated in national and imperial histories leads him beyond a facile rejection of foundationalism, opening up the possibility of new, more politically accountable practices among professional historians.' - Anntoinette Burton, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois

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Preface
Apropos Exceptionalism: Imperial Location and Comparative Histories of South Africa and the United States	p. 1
Homelands, Harlem and Comparative History	p. 27
Beyond Nation. Beyond Methodism?	p. 33
The Empire and Mr. Thompson: The Making of Indian Princes and the English Working Class	p. 39
Piper at the Gates of Dawn	p. 81
Beyond Boundaries, Beyond the Whale	p. 88
Beyond Silly Mid-Off: C. L. R. James, Ranjitsinhji and the Boundaries of Englishness	p. 96
The Sound of Silence	p. 124
A Common Wind	p. 127
Class, Culture and Empire: Making Social History	p. 132
Notes	p. 159
References	p. 207
Index	p. 225
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Essays in Comparative History