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Intro -- Transcultural History -- Theories, Methods, Sources -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: What is Transcultural History? -- 1 Paris 1919: A Perturbingly Interconnected World beyond National Histories -- 2 Paris 1919 in the Historians Éyes -- 3 Gaining a Global Picture: Analytical Concepts -- 4 Transcultural Issues -- 5 Methodological Key Elements of Transcultural History -- 5.1 Establishing and Crossing Borders, Limits, Thresholds, Frontiers -- 5.2 ``Ce nést pas une pomme:́́ Denying Borders by Claiming Authenticity -- 6 Transcultural History beyond Paris 1919 -- Part I: Theories and Concepts -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Historiography -- 2.1 The Mechanics of History -- 2.2 The Framing of History as an Academic Discipline in the Nineteenth Century -- 2.3 Differences between the Social and the Academic Function of History -- 2.4 The Nineteenth Century: How the World Acquired a Western Past and Historiography Dismissed a Global Scope -- 2.4.1 Establishing and Following the ``Master Narrative ó́f the Nation -- 2.4.2 Weltgeist versus Serendipity -- 2.4.3 The Asian Start of Global Historiography -- 2.4.4 The Shifting of Global Topics from Research to Education -- 2.4.5 Popular Interest in the World and the De-Historisation of Non-Western Areas -- 2.5 Which Discipline is Truly Global? Competitive Scientific Discourses and Internationalism -- 2.5.1 International Professional Associations and the Search for Border Crossing Topics -- 2.5.2 Internationalism and International Organisations: The Merging of Science and Politics -- 2.5.3 The Concept of Internationalism -- 2.6 How World War I and Propaganda Prepared New Grounds for Global Approaches -- 2.6.1 The End of the European Westphalian Order and the Beginning of Global Cooperation -- 2.6.2 Disciplines with a Global Approach after World War I.

2.6.3 Paris 1919: The Development of Dense Global Networks -- 2.6.4 The Growing Importance of International Organisations and the Impact of War -- 3 Transcultural History -- 3.1 Culture and Historiography -- 3.1.1 The Impact of Culture -- 3.1.2 Historiography after the Cold War Ended: Subaltern Studies and Historicities -- 3.1.3 Multiculturalism and Critical Theory in the Dispute Concerning Cultural Integrity and Guarantees of Diversity -- 3.2 Why Transcultural History: What is New? What is Different? -- 3.2.1 Transculturality: Combining Culture and Border Crossing -- 3.2.2 The Renaissance of Transculturality in a Newly Shaped Global History -- 3.2.3 The Role of East-West Relations and the Shifting of Culture from Civilisation to Globality -- 3.2.4 Searching for Examples of East-West Discourse after World War I -- 3.2.5 Transcultural Topics -- 3.2.6 Historical Assumptions and Claims of a Transcultural Historiography -- 4 Fighting Zombies: Methodological Challenges of Transcultural History -- 4.1 From Spatial Storage to Flows of Information -- 4.1.1 Storage and Research -- 4.1.2 Transcultural Collections -- 4.1.3 The Political Value of Information and its Forms of Presentation -- 4.1.4 Visual and Aural Information -- 4.2 From Chronology to Historicities -- 4.2.1 Specifying Actors and Events by Inventing Chronologies -- 4.2.2 The Introduction of Different Historicities -- 4.3 From the Big Powers Ǵreat Men to Transcultural Bodies and Transboundary Biographies -- 4.3.1 Disclosing the Gendered View of International Relations -- 4.3.2 The New Man and the New Woman: The Global Appearance of Transcultural Bodies -- 4.3.3 Transcultural Biographies: Examples of Both Sexes -- 4.3.4 New Cosmopolitans Drive Cars -- 5 Conclusions: The Transcultural Grave -- Part II: Methods.

1 Introduction: Adapting Methods to Transcultural Topics or Developing Transculturality as a Method -- 2 Changing Structures of Cognition -- 2.1 Structures of Cognition and Establishing New Paradigms -- 2.2 The Methodological Focus of Transcultural History: Clash or Convergence? -- 2.3 Methodological Premises of a Transcultural History -- 3 Getting Information -- 3.1 The Historical Value of Information -- 3.2 Turning Information into a Research Design -- 3.2.1 Looking for New Insights -- 3.2.2 Examples: A Transcultural Approach to Biographies, Institutions, Visual Source Material -- 3.3 Bibliographies: the Art of Hiding Transcultural Entanglement -- 3.3.1 Searching and Finding Literature: the Daily Practice of a Complex Mechanism -- 3.3.2 Discovering Blind Spots by Deconstructing Bibliographies -- 3.3.3 Manipulating the Past: Asymmetrical Information Transfers in Bibliographies -- 3.4 Research Literature: Information Beyond Pretension -- 3.4.1 A Box Scheme for Thinking Outside the Box -- 3.4.2 The Tunes of Transcultural Research -- 3.4.3 The Transcultural Reading of Non-Transcultural Literature -- 3.4.4 Sirens Promising Objective Knowledge: The Example of the Encyclopaedia -- 4 Questioning and Prejudice -- 4.1 Introduction: Where Are the Borders of Europe? Biased Positions -- 4.2 Transcultural Objectivity -- 4.2.1 The Ambivalence of Objectivity -- 4.2.2 The Historical-Critical Method and Source Criticism -- 4.3 An Example: Alfred H. Fried and William T. Stead. Concepts and Practices to Create an International Public Sphere -- 4.4 Visual Culture and Pictures as Source Material -- 4.4.1 Images and Visibility -- 4.4.2 The ``Century of the Eye -́́- 4.5 Example: Hendrik C. Andersen ``The Creation of a World Centre of Communication -́́- 4.6 Recorded Sounds as Primary Sources -- 4.6.1 Lingual Sound Sources -- 4.6.2 Musical Sources.

4.7 Example (Lingual Sound Source): ``SOS SOS rao rao Foyn.́́ Listening to Transculturality in an Early German Radio Play -- 4.8 Example (Musical Sound Source): Listening to Music in the Theatre. The Kawakami Group at the 1900 Paris Worldś Fair -- 5 Future Prospects-How to Find Sources Documenting a ``Web, `́́`Flows, á́nd Other Relational Approaches -- Part III: Sources -- 1 Texts -- Standardisation -- World Orders -- War and Peace -- World Views -- 2 Images -- Standardisation -- World Visions -- Changing Diplomatic Worlds -- New Modernism -- Symbolising the World: World's Fair Pictorial Language -- Transcultural Death -- 3 Sounds -- Inventing Global sounds -- Border Crossers -- Radio Plays -- Music and Diplomacy -- Bibliography -- Keywords Index -- Persons Index -- Places Index.

Focusing on a transcultural history, this volume questions the territoriality of historical concepts. Readers will find a narrative that aims to overcome cultural essentialism by an emphasis on crossing borders of all kinds.