Toward a global community of historians: Karl Dietrich Erdmann the International Historical Congresses and the International Committee of Historical Sciences: 1898-2000

Rev. ed. of: Die Ökumene der Historiker, 1987.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-418) and index.

1. Imperialism and the network of scholars -- 2. Prelude in the Hague, 1898 -- 3. Advocates of comparison : the First Congress, Paris, 1900 -- 4. Debates on methodology : Rome, 1903 -- 5. Victorious professionalism : Berlin, 1908 -- 6. An entente cordiale of historians on the eve of the war : London, 1913 -- 7. Overcoming nationalism in the study of history : Brussels, 1923 -- 8. The beginnings of the International Committee of Historical Sciences, 1923-1927 -- 9. Cleavages and goodwill : the "spirit of Oslo," 1928 -- 10. New political challenges : Warsaw, 1933 -- 11. In the shadow of crisis : Zurich, 1938 -- 12. Destruction and revival, 1938-1947 -- 13. Nouvelle histoire versus histoire historisante : grand debates and new departures in Paris, 1950 -- 14. Political history on the defense - encounters in the Cold War in Rome, 1955 -- 15. The congresses from 1960 to 1985 - politics -- 16. The congresses from 1960 to 1985 - organizational and structural developments -- 17. Debates on theory and methodology from the 1960s to the 1980s -- 18. Debates between East and West from the 1960s to the 1980s -- Epilogue : after the end of the great schism - the international historical congresses from 1985 to 2000 / Wolfgang J. Mommsen -- App. I. Members of the Bureau of the International Committee of Historical Sciences, 1926-2000 -- App. II. Members of the International Committee of Historical Sciences, 1926-2003 -- App. III. Participation of individual countries in the international congresses, 1898-2000 -- App. IV. Development of the constitution of the International Committee of Historical Sciences, 1926-2000.