This list of the expert literature on comparative methodology is a corrected and supplemented survey of the bibliography that I gave to readers in my article published in Sociální studia 1/2009. It consists of texts from various social science fields and language environments dealing with the comparative approach. The following list does not deny that my home discipline is comparative history. Moreover, each researcher in the field of comparative studies is obliged to take into account that even the comparison itself has its own history, fashionable currents on the one hand and old-fashioned branches on the other. Therefore, the core of the presented bibliography is composed of theoretical and methodological texts published not only in recent years, but during all the historical development of the comparative approach. In addition to theoretical and methodological treatises, I also include some texts that allow to see the comparative approach in context, as well as publications using and applying a comparative way of thinking, although they are not inherently based on the comparative method.
ÁLVAREZ GÓMEZ, Mariano. Teoria de la historicidad. Madrid: Editorial Síntesis, 2007.
ARNDT, Agnes, HÄBERLEN, Joachim, REINECKE, Christiane (Hrsg.). Vergleichen, verflechten, verwirren? Europäische Geschichtsschreibung zwischen Theorie und Praxis. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011.
BASCH, Linda, GLICK – SCHILLER, Nina, SZANTON – BLANC, Cristina. Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments, and Deterritorialized National States. London: Routlege, 1994.
BEVILACQUA, Piero. L’utilità della storia. Il passato e gli altri mondi possibili. Roma: Donzelli 2007.
BLOCH, Marc. Pour une histoire comparée des sociétés européennes.Revue de synthèse historique, XLVI, 1928, p. 15 – 50.
BONAUDO, Marta, ROGUERA, Andrea, ZEBERIO, Blanca (eds.). Las escalas de la historia comparada. Tomo I.: Dinámicas sociales, poderes políticos y sistemas jurídicos. Buenos Aires: Miño y Dávila, 2008.
BRAUDEL, Fernand. Civilisation matérielle, économie et capitalisme, XVe – XVIIIe siècle. I. –III. Paris: Armand Colin, 1979.
BRAEMBUSCHE, A. A. van den. Historical Explanation and Comparative Method. Towards a Theory of the History of Society. History and Theory , 28, 1989, p. 1 – 24. (znovu přetištěno in: SICA, Alan (ed.). Comparative Methods in the Social Sciences. I. London: Sage, 2006, p. 260 – 287)
BUDDE, Conilla, CONRAD, Sebastian, JANZ, Oliver. Transnationale Geschichte: Themen, Tendenzen und Theorien. Göttingen: Vandenhoek& Ruprecht, 2006.
CARSON, Richard L. Comparative Economic Systems. New York: Mackmillan, 1973.
CONKLIN, David W. Comparative Economic Systems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
CONRAD, Sebastian. La constitution de l´histoire japonaise: Histoire comparée, transferts, interactions transnationales. In: WERNER, Michael, ZIMMERMANN, Bénédicte. De la comparaison à l’histoire croisée.Paris: Seuil, 2004, p. 53 – 72.
CORBINEAU-HOFFMANN, Angelika. Einführung in die Komparatistik. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2004.
CROSSICK, Geoffrey. And what should they know of England?: Die vergleichende Geschichtsschreibung in heutigen Grossbritanien. In: Geschichte und Vergleich. Ansätze und Ergebnisse international vergleichender Geschichtsschreibung. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus Verlag, 1996, p. 61 – 75.
DE MEUR, Gisèle, RIHOUX, Benoît. L’analyse quali – quantitative comparée: Approche, techniques et applications en sciences humaines.. Bruxelles: Bruylant – Academia, 2002.
ESPAGNE, Michel. Sur les limites du comparatisme en histoire culturelle. In: Genèses, 17, 1994, p. 102 – 121.
GEMELLI, Giuliana. Fernand Braudel e le ambivalenze della storia comparata. In: ROSSI, Pietro (ed). La storia comparata: Approci e prospettive. Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1990, p. 225 – 242.
GERSCHENKRON, Alexander. Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective. Cambridge: CUP, 1962.
GOSEWINKEL, Dieter (ed.). Zivilgesellschaft – national und transnational. Berlin: WZB, 2004.
GREW, Raymond. On the Current State of Comparative Studies. In: Marc Bloch aujourd´hui. Histoire comparée et sciences sociales. Paris: EHESS, 1990, p. 323 – 333.
HAUPT,Heinz-Gerhard, KOCKA, Jürgen (eds.). Comparative and Transnational History. Central European Approaches and New Perspectives, New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2009.
HAUPT, Heinz – Gerhard, KOCKA, Jürgen. Historischer Vergleich: Methoden, Aufgaben, Probleme. In: Geschichte und Vergleich. Ansätze und Ergebnisse international vergleichender Geschichtsschreibung. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus Verlag, 1996, p. 9 – 45.
HERB, Guntram, KAPLAN, David (ed.). Nested Identities: Nationalism, Territory, and Scale. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
HOBSBAWM, Eric. The Age of Revolution 1789 – 1848. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1962; The Age of Capital 1848 – 1875. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1975;The Age of Empire 1875 – 1918. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1987; The Age of Extremes. The Short Twentieth Century1914-1991. London: Penguin 1994.
HOFFMAN, Stefan Ludwig: Geselligkeit und Demokratie: Vereine und zivile Gesellschaft im transnationalen Vergleich 1750 – 1914. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2003.
HROCH, Miroslav. Comparative Studies in Modern European History: Nation, Nationalism, Social Change. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
HROCH, Miroslav. European Nations. Explaining Their Formation. London, New York: Verso 2015.
HROCH, Miroslav. Hledání souvislostí. Eseje ke komparativním dějinám Evropy. Praha, SLON 2016.
HROCH, Miroslav. Komparativní metoda v marxistické historiografii: Možnosti a meze jejího využití. Československý časopis historický, 20, 1972, p. 631 – 647.
HROCH, Miroslav. Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe. A Comparative Analysis of the Social Composition of Patriotic Groups among the Smaller European Nations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1985.
HROCH, Miroslav a kol. Úvod do studia dějepisu. Praha: SPN, 1985.
KAELBLE, Hartmut. Der historische Vergleich: Eine Einführung zum 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt a. M., New York: Campus Verlag, 1999.
KAELBLE, Hartmut, SCHRIEWER, Jürgen (eds). Vergleich und Transfer. Komparatistik in den Sozial-, Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus 2003.
KAELBLE, Hartmut. Vers une société européenne: Une histoire sociale de l’Europe 1880 – 1980. Paris: Belin, 1988.
KAMIENICKI, Witold. O metodzie porównawczej v historii. Kwartalnik Historiczny, 55, 1948, p. 3 – 23.
KLUSÁKOVÁ, Luďa (ed.). Criteria and Indicators of Backwardness. Essays on Uneven Development in European History. Říčany u Prahy: Variant, 1996.
KOCKA, Jürgen. Asymmetrical Historical Comparison. The Case of the German Sonderweg, History and Theory, 38, 1999, p. 40-51.
KOCKA, Jürgen. Comparison and Beyond. History and Theory,42, 2003, p. 39 – 44.
KOCKA, Jürgen. Sozialgeschichte: Begriff – Entwicklung – Probleme . Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 1986.
Komparace politických systémů I.-III. Vol. I. DVOŘÁKOVÁ, Vladimíra a kol. Základní modely demokratických systémů. Vol. II. ŘÍCHOVÁ, Blanka a kol. Západoevropské politické systémy. Vol. III. Cabada, Ladislav a kol.: Nové demokracie střední a východní Evropy. Praha: Oeconomica 2008, 2009.
KUBIŠ, Karel (ed.). Obraz druhého v historické perspektivě II. Identity a stereotypy při formování moderní společnosti. Praha: Karolinum 2003.
KUHN, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: Chicago Universtity Press, 1965.
KULIŠER, Michail Ignaťjevič: Očerki sravnitel’noj etnografii i kul’tury. Moskva: URSS 2010.
LALLEMENT, Michel, SPURK, Jan (ed.). Stratégies de la comparaison internationale. Paris: CNRS, 2002.
MAHONEY, James, RUESCHEMEYER, Dietrich (ed.). Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
MARKOV, D. F. Sravnitěl’no – istoričeskije i komplexnyje issledovanija v obščestvennych naukach. Voprosy istorii, 29,1973, č. 10, p. 80 – 95.
MATTHES, Joachim (ed.). Zwischen den Kulturen? Die Sozialwissenschaft vor dem Problem des Kulturvergleichs. Göttingen: Verlag Otto Schwarz, 1992.
MIDDELL,Matthias. Kulturtransfer und Historische Komparatistik – Thesen zu ihrem Verhältnis, Comparativ,10, 2000, p. 7-41.
MELKHONJAN, Edoward Lewoni. Problemy sravnitel’nogo metoda v istoričeskom znanii. Jerevan: Akademia nauk Armenskoj SSR 1981.
MICHAL, Jan. Komparativní hospodářské systémy. Praha: Karolinum 1994.
MIŚKIEWICZ, Benon. Wstęp do badań historycznych. Warszawa – Poznań: PWN, 1974.
MORETTI, Mauro. Henri Pirenne: Comparazione e storia universale.In:ROSSI, Pietro (ed). La storia comparata: Approci e prospettive. Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1990, p. 90 – 109.
MOSZCZEŃSKA, Wanda. Metodologii historii zarys krytyczny. Warszawa: PWN, 1977.
NAKAMURA, Hajime. A Comparative History of Ideas. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1992.
OSTERHAMMEL, Jürgen. Sozialgeschichte im Zivilisationsvergleich. Zu künftigen Möglichkeiten komparativer Geschichtswissenschaft, Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 22, 1996, p. 143-64.
OSTERHAMMEL, Jürgen. Transkulturell vergleichende Geschichtswissenschaft. In: Geschichte und Vergleich. Ansätze und Ergebnisse international vergleichender Geschichtsschreibung. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus Verlag, 1996, p. 271 – 313.
PAULMANN, Johannes. Internationaler Vergleich und interkultureller Transfer. Zwei Forschungsansätze zur europäischen Geschichte des 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert. Historische Zeitschrift , 267, 1998, p. 649 – 685.
PEŠEK, Jiří. Česká historiografie na počátku 21. století – Cesty jejího hodnocení. Český časopis historický, 105, 2007, p. 89 – 100.
PIRENNE, Henri. De la méthode comparative en histoire. In: Comptes rendu du IIIe Congrès international des sciences historiques. Bruxelles, 1923, p. 19 – 32.
PURŠ, Jaroslav. Metoda měření asynchronismu některých historických procesů. Československý časopis historický, 18, 1970, p. 161 – 195.
PURŠ, Jaroslav. Průmyslová revoluce: Vývoj pojmu a koncepce. Praha: Academia, 1973.
RAGIN, Charles. The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies. Berkley: University of California Press, 1987.
ROMAGNOLLI, Daniela. La comparazione nell’opera di Marc Bloch: Pratica e teoria. .In:ROSSI, Pietro (ed). La storia comparata: Approci e prospettivve. Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1990, p. 110 – 125.
ROSSI, Pietro (ed). La storia comparata: Approci e prospettivve. Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1990.
ROSTOW, Walt. The Stages of Economic Growth. Cambridge: CUP, 1960.
SÁNCHEZ LEÓN, Pablo, IZQUIERDO MARTÍN, Jesús: El fin de los historiadores. Pensar historicamente en el siglo XXI. Madrid: Siglo XXI Editores, 2008.
SICA, Alan (ed.). Comparative Methods in the Social Sciences. I. – IV. London: Sage 2006.
SCHIEDER, Theodor. Geschichte als Wissenschaft: Eine Einführung. München – Wien: Oldenbourg 1965.
SKOCPOL, Theda, SOMERS, Margret. The Use of Comparative History in Macrosocial Inquiry. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 22, 1980, p. 174 – 197.
Sravnitel’naja filosofia. Moskva: Vostočnaja literatura RAN, 2000.
SZALÓ, Csaba: Transnacionální migrace: Proměny identit, hranic a vědění o nich. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2007.
TILLY, Charles. Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons. New York: Russel Sage Foundation, 1984.
TOPOLSKI, Jerzy. Metodologia historii. Warszawa: PWN, 1984.
VETROVEC, Steven. Transnationalism and Identity. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 27, 2001, p. 573 – 582.
VIGOUR, Cécile. La Comparaison dans les sciences sociales: Pratiques et méthodes. Paris: La Découverte, 2005.
WALLERSTEIN, Immanuel. The Modern World – System. I. – III. New York: Academic Press, 1974, 1980, 1989.
WERNER, Michael, ZIMMERMANN, Bénédicte. Penser l‘ histoire croisée: entre empirie et réflexivité. In: WERNER, Michael, ZIMMERMANN, Bénédicte. De la comparaison à l’histoire croisée.Paris: Seuil, 2004.
WERNER, Michael, ZIMMEMANN, Bénédicte. Vergleich, Transfer, Verflechtung. Der Ansatz der Histoire croisée und die Herausforderung der Transnationalen. Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 28,2002, p. 607 – 636.
WILES, Peter John: Economic Institutions Compared. New York: Wiley, 1977.
Journals, periodicals and proceedings series
The list below contains journals, periodicals and proceedings series dealing systematically or occasionally with methodological issues of comparative approach or with its contexts. Currently, most of these periodicals are available in digital versions, including an archive of older articles.
Ab Imperio. Russian international interdisciplinary periodical, published quarterly since 2000
Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales. Journal published quarterly by the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, since 1929
Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung. Published published by the University of Leipzig, six times a year since 1991
Comparative Studies in Society and History. Published Cambridge University Press, four times a year since 1958
Geschichte und Gesellschaft: Zeitschrift für historische Sozialwissenschaft, German academic journal, published quarterly since 1975
History and Theory. International journal,published by Wesleyan University (Middletown, USA), quarterly since 1960
Historyka: Studia metodologiczne. Yearbook published by the Polish Academy of Sciences since 1967
Storia della storiografia. International periodical, published in Italy since 1982, twice a year
Studia metodologiczne: zeszyty poświęcone integracji nauki. Published by Adam Miczkiewicz University in Poznan since 1965, up to now 39 volumes
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