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Losses, Gains and Opportunities: Social History Today
- Journal of Social History
- George Mason University Press
- Volume 37, Number 1, Fall 2003
- pp. 21-28
- 10.1353/jsh.2003.0146
- Article
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Both as a subdiscipline and as an approach to general history social history has deeply changed in the last thirty years. Losses and gains, defeats and victories were intrinsically intertwined. The article reconstructs this mélange from a German point of view. Presently the quest for new trans-national approaches offers new challenges and opportunities. A new "social turn" may be imminent.