Antje Flüchter is spokesperson of the collaborative research center 1288 »Practices of Comparing« and a professor of early modern history at Universität Bielefeld. Her primary focus lies in the interconnected history between Asia, especially India, and Europe, in the early modern period, as well as in history of religiosity, political history, gender history and the theory of history.
Kirsten Kramer is principal investigator in the collaborative research center 1288 »Practices of Comparing« and a professor of comparative literature and Romance studies at Universität Bielefeld. Her main areas of research include literature and globalization, (travel) literature and ethnography, actor-network theory and visual studies.
Rebecca Mertens is a postdoctoral researcher in the collaborative research center 1288 »Practices of Comparing«. Her research interests cover the role of analogies, models and forms of comparison in the history of the life sciences.
Silke Schwandt is principal investigator in the collaborative research center 1288 »Practices of Comparing« and a professor of digital history at Universität Bielefeld. Her expertise lies in digital history, encompassing methods and theories of digital historical research.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgments 7
Modeling and Change 9
Modeling, Ordering, Comparing 35
Making Use of Models 49
World Travel Literature 71
Stadial Change and the Emergence of Comparative Studies in German-Speaking Europe Around 1870-1900 93
Modeling Diversity, Comparability, and Change 121
World Political Change 147
"Models of the World"—"Talking about Change"? 167
Rethinking the Model and Modeling 207
Grounds for Comparison 231
A Contingency-sensitive Theory of Global Change 251
Authors 277