Preface List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction: What Is the History of the Humanities?, Herman Paul (Leiden University, The Netherlands) Part I: Definitions and Backgrounds 1. What Are the Humanities? A Short History of Concepts and Classifications, Fabian Kramer (University of Munich, Germany) 2. From Philology to the Humanities: Fragmentation and Discipline Formation in the United Kingdom and United States, James Turner (University of Notre Dame, USA) 3. The Humanities in Crisis: Comparative Perspectives on a Recurring Motif, Hampus OEsth Gustafsson (Uppsala University, Sweden) Part II: Research Practices 4. Modernizing the Comparative Method: Marx and Darwin, Devin Griffiths (University of Southern California, USA) 5. Language and the Mapping of the World: Nineteenth-Century Linguistics in Relation to Ethnology and Geography, Floris Solleveld (KU Leuven, Belgium) 6. Big-ness in Action: Notes from a Lexicon, Christian Bradley Flow (Mississippi State University, USA) 7. Oral History and the (Digital) Humanities, Julianne Nyhan and Andrew Flinn (both University College London, UK) Part III: Values and Virtues 8. Practical Learning: The Transnational Career of an Epistemic Value in Japan, Michael Facius (University of Tokyo, Japan) 9. An Ethos of Criticism: Virtues and Vices in Nineteenth-Century Strasbourg, Herman Paul (Leiden University, The Netherlands) 10. Producing the Masculine Scholar: Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Falko Schnicke (Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria) 11. Scholarly Activism in Africa: The General History of Africa (1964-98), Larissa Schulte Nordholt (Leiden University, The Netherlands) Part IV: Teaching Practices 12. The Humanities in the Vocational University: On the Unity of Teaching and Research, Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen (Roskilde University, Denmark) 13. On the Purpose of Humanities Education: A Historical Perspective from the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States, Claire Rydell Arcenas (University of Montana, USA) Part V: Visions of the Future 14. A Postcritical Turn? Unravelling the Meaning of Post and Turn, Herman Paul (Leiden University, The Netherlands) 15. Environmental Humanities: Entangled Interdisciplinarity, Kristine Steenbergh (Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 16. Humanities across Time and Space: Four Challenges for a New Discipline, Rens Bod (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Glossary Index