TY - JOUR A1 - Hirschhausen, Ulrike von A1 - Leonhard, Jörn T1 - Zwischen Historisierung und Globalisierung: Titel, Themen und Trends der neueren Empire-Forschung T1 - Between Historicization and Globalization: Topics, Issues and Trends in new research on Empires T2 - Neue Politische Literatur N2 - The following article examines recent publications on empires and imperial history in world history, covering general overviews, comparative studies and monographs on individual cases. As a preliminary result of a general expansion of empire-studies – diachronically, with regard to different historical spaces and thematically – the authors identify a danger of inflating the concept and thereby weakening its analytical strength. Furthermore, a growing gulf between macro-perspectives and panoramas on the one hand and mikro-analyses on the other makes it difficult to achieve a suitable framework for precise research on empires. The article therefore argues in favour of a meso level, as the comparative view on the complex relation between empires and nation-states in the nineteenth and twentieth century can illustrate. Y1 - 2012 UR - https://zeitgeschichte-digital.de/doks/frontdoor/index/index/docId/19 UR - http://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/sites/default/files/medien/material/Hirschhausen_Leonhard_2011.pdf SP - 389 EP - 404 ER -