Connected worlds history in trans-national perspective

"This volume brings together historians of imperialism and race, travel and modernity, Islam and India, the Pacific and the Atlantic to show how a 'transnational' approach to history offers fresh insights into the past. Transnational history is a form of scholarship that has been revo...

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Körperschaft: Trans-National History Symposium (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: ©2005
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction Ann Curthoys and Marilyn Lake
  • Different Modes of Transnational History Putting the nation in its place?: world history and C.A. Bayly's The Birth of the Modern World Tony Ballantyne
  • Paths not yet taken, voices not yet heard: rethinking Atlantic history Michael A. McDonnell
  • Postcolonial histories and Catherine Hall's Civilising Subjects Angela Woollacott
  • Migration and Other Voyages Steal a handkerchief, see the world: the trans-oceanic voyaging of Thomas Limpus Emma Christopher
  • Revolution and respectability: Chinese Masons in Australian history John Fitzgerald
  • 'Innocents abroad' and 'prohibited immigrants': Australians in India and Indians in Australia 1890-1910 Margaret Allen
  • Postwar British emigrants and the 'transnational moment': exemplars of a 'mobility of modernity'? A. James Hammerton
  • Modernity, Film and Romance 'Films as foreign offices': transnationalism at Paramount in the twenties and early thirties Desley Deacon
  • Modern nomads and national film history: the multi-continental career of J.D. Williams Jill Julius Matthews
  • The Americanisation of romantic love in Australia: Hsu-Ming Teo
  • Transnational Racial Politics Transcultural/transnational interaction and influences on Aboriginal Australia John Maynard
  • From Mississippi to Melbourne via Natal: the invention of the literacy test as a technology of racial exclusion Marilyn Lake Postcolonial Transnationalism Islam, Europe and Indian nationalism: towards a postcolonial transnationalism Patrick Wolfe