This essay is a critical discussion of Dipesh Chakrabarty's book Provincializing Europe as well as a first sketch of a History on Equal Terms. After giving a short summary of Provincializing Europe, I first argue, against chakrabarty, that there is no necessary connection between the discipline of history and the metanarratives of modernity. To the contrary: the founding idea of the discipline of history was a turn against such grand narratives. With his attempt to deconstruct the narratives of the European Enlightenment and of modernity, Chakrabarty therefore has to be regarded as a thinker of radical historicism rather than as a critic of the discipline of history. Second, I criticize the use of the term “modernity” in Provincializing Europe and the concept of modernity in general. Instead of a deconstruction of the discipline of history, I propose a deconstruction of the concept of modernity. This could open up the way for a History on Equal Terms situated within the discipline of history, that is, a historiography that would—just as Chakrabarty rightly demands—in principle pay the same attention to and expect relevant results from any region in the world, depending only on the focus of research.
Contributing to the current debate on the history of security, this essay examines the value "security" had in the late 19th century as a normative maxim for European rulers. It gives examples of attacks on state and government leaders and analyzes their reactions and the resultant discussions about the protection of monarchs. These case studies will demonstrate that the security culture of the heads of European states was shaped more by the traditional model of aristocratic, military and manly virtuousness than by security considerations well into the late 19th century. Yet the evolution of modern terrorism soon revealed the limits of this traditional security culture. * Eine erste Version der Teile I-III und V hat Carola Dietze im Sommer 2007 whrend der Summer School des Berliner Kollegs fr Vergleichende Geschichte Europas an der FU Berlin vorgestellt. Fr Diskussion und Anregungen dankt sie allen Teilnehmern der Summer School und insbesondere spiritus rector und Organisatorin Tatjana Tçnsmeyer sowie Friedrich Lenger. Frithjof Benjamin Schenk hat frhere Versionen des vierten Teils bei verschiedenen Anlssen in Deutschland und den USA vorgetragen.
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