Comparing and Change : Orders, Models, Perceptions / edited by Antje Fluchter, Kirsten Kramer, Rebecca Mertens, Silke Schwandt.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Modeling and Change -- Introduction -- Change and Practices of Comparing -- Historical Change in History and other Humanities and SocialScience Disciplines -- Comparing and Change -- Models and Modeling -- The Contributions to this Volume -- Models and Modeling as Research Objects -- Modeling as Research Practice and Strategy -- Models and Practices of Comparing -- Practices of Comparing and Change -- Bibliography -- Modeling, Ordering, Comparing -- History, Theory, and Models -- "Models as Mediators between Theory and the Real World" -- Models and Modeling Practices in History -- Ordering the World through Practices of Comparing: Lucas Cranach and the concept of Damnation and Redemption -- Modeling as Operationalisation: Comparative Practices and Quantification -- Modeling, Ordering, Comparing - and now? -- Bibliography -- Making Use of Models -- Introduction -- Models as Research Objects in Economic History -- Modeling the British Property Market (Frederik Kunkel) -- Financialization through the lens of economic modeling -- Modeling the British Property Market -- Historical Indications -- Forms as Models (Jacob Bohe) -- Forms as special models -- The Value of Valuation Research -- Conclusion -- From Ideal Types to Models? The Relation of Ideal Types and Models in Ordering People from the 17th-19th Century -- Ordering-Modeling-Comparing from an Early Modern Perspective (Malte Wittmaack) -- How Historical Actors Mold Racial Hierarchies through Models in the Americas (Angela Gutierrez) -- Conclusion -- Modeling as a Research Practice -- Denazification as a Model (Laura Maria Niew ohner) -- How did historical actors model? -- How do researchers model research objects? -- Thinking in Models (Charlotte Feidicker) -- Conclusion -- Final Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Literature.

World Travel Literature -- Bibliography -- Stadial Change and the Emergence of Comparative Studies in GermanSpeaking Europe Around 1870-1900 -- Introduction: Comparative Literature's Disciplinary Origins in the Late Nineteenth Century -- The Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum -- Stadial Change in Scherer -- Stadial Theory in the Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum -- Conclusion: The Specter of Literary Value -- Bibliography -- Modeling Diversity, Comparability, and Change -- Introduction: Ethnographic Knowledge Formation, Modeling, and Change -- The Evolutionist Model of Change. Ethnology, Ethnography, and the Comparative Method before and after 1900 -- Modeling Diversity: Victor Segalen's Essai sur l'exotisme -- Conclusion: Comparison and Change -- Bibliography -- World Political Change -- Introduction: World Political Change and Its Narration -- "World Political Change": A Change of What Exactly? -- Common Storytelling Practices -- Three episodes -- Episode 1: a scholar diagnosing the advent of political multipolarity -- Episode 2: an investment bank pointing to the rise of the BRICs -- Episode 3: an international organization anticipating world political change -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- "Models of the World"-"Talking about Change"? -- Introduction -- The Prophet Daniel and the Four Empires -- Giovanni Botero-An early Comparatist who build a Model of Rise and Fall of Empires and Rulers? -- Botero's comparative work -- Relating Botero's model to concepts and language of change -- Earlymodern Advice Literature-Demands to Change in Order to save Body and Soul -- Conclusion -- Premodern models and practices of comparing -- Conceptualizing change in the frame of premodern models -- Comparing and models beyond the idea of European superiority -- Understanding change in premodern, modern, and postmodern times -- Bibliography.

Rethinking the Model and Modeling -- Bibliography -- Grounds for Comparison -- February 28 2022 / March 19 2022 -- BeforeandAfter Satellite Images -- Remotesensing Humanrights Violations -- Ground Truth: Triangulations -- Bibliography -- Literature -- Other Websites -- Images -- A Contingencysensitive Theory of Global Change -- The Theory of History Without Telos, Yet Not Without a Direction -- The Telos of History, or the Necessity of a Natural Law -- Beyond the Telos: Contingency as a Stimulus in Global Change -- The problematic Diminution of Causality in the Theory of History, and the Significance of Intentionality -- Practices Mediate between Human Intentionality and the Contingency of Change -- Unity and Diversity in global change: Globalization/s -- The Structural Analogy between Comparative Practices and Globalization Dynamics -- Bibliography -- Authors.

Comparisons affect various ways of perceiving and interpreting the world, characterized by distinct legitimization strategies and knowledge application routines by different actors. The contributors to this volume explore the link between change and practices of comparing, focusing on order, representation, and models. They delve into how comparing influences knowledge production, but also focus on persisting orders of knowledge. This collection centers on the role of models and modeling in relation to practices of comparing, thus highlighting the representational and operational force of comparing as a way to form and organize reality.

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