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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Autor Corporativo: Trans-National History Symposium (-)
Otros Autores: Curthoys, Ann (-), Lake, Marilyn
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Canberra : ANU E Press 2005.
Colección:JSTOR Open Access monographs.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b34947085*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.