Rethinking American history in a global age / edited by Thomas Bender.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bender, Thomas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Historiography.

United States.

Historiography.

United States--History--Philosophy.

History.

Philosophy.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

ix, 427 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [2002]

Summary:

A group of distinguished historians examine the implications of writing and teaching U.S. history in a global context. The essays question and reframe the traditional themes and periods of American history, and address the underlying topic of how to study history without allowing national borders to overly determine how we understand our past.

Contents:

Part I. Historicizing the nation

Transnationalism and the challenge to national histories / Prasenjit Duara

Internationalizing international history / Akira Iriye

Where in the world is America? The history of the United States in the global age / Charles Bright and Michael Geyer

Part II. New historical geographies and temporalities

International at the creation: early modern American history / Karen Ordahl Kupperman

How the West was one: the African diaspora and the re-mapping of U.S. history / Robin D.G. Kelley

Time and revolution in African America: temporality and the history of Atlantic slavery / Walter Johnson

Beyond the view from Euro-America: environment, settler societies, and the internationalization of American history / Ian Tyrrell

Part III. Opening the frame

From Euro- and Afro-Atlantic to Pacific migration system: a comparative migration approach to North American history / Dirk Hoerder

Framing U.S. history: democracy, nationalism, and socialism / Robert Wiebe

An age of social politics / Daniel T. Rodgers

The age of global power / Marilyn B. Young

American empire and cultural imperialism: a view from the receiving end / Rob Kroes

Part IV. The constraints of practice

Do American historical narratives travel? / François Weil

The modernity of America and the practice of scholarship / Winfried Fluck

The exhaustion of enclosures: a critique of internationalization / Ron Robin

The historian's use of the United States and vice versa / David A. Hollinger.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0520230574

0520230582

OCLC:

46882563