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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bender, Thomas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization.

United States--Historiography.

United States.

United States--History--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (438 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In rethinking and reframing the American national narrative in a wider context, the contributors to this volume ask questions about both nationalism and the discipline of history itself. The essays offer fresh ways of thinking about the traditional themes and periods of American history. By locating the study of American history in a transnational context, they examine the history of nation-making and the relation of the United States to other nations and to transnational developments. What is now called globalization is here placed in a historical context. A cast of distinguished historians from the United States and abroad examines the historiographical implications of such a reframing and offers alternative interpretations of large questions of American history ranging from the era of European contact to democracy and reform, from environmental and economic development and migration experiences to issues of nationalism and identity. But the largest issue explored is basic to all histories: How does one understand, teach, and write a national history even as one recognizes that the territorial boundaries do not fully contain that history and that within that bounded territory the society is highly differentiated, marked by multiple solidarities and identities?Rethinking American History in a Global Age advances an emerging but important conversation marked by divergent voices, many of which are represented here. The various essays explore big concepts and offer historical narratives that enrich the content and context of American history. The aim is to provide a history that more accurately reflects the dimensions of American experience and better connects the past with contemporary concerns for American identity, structures of power, and world presence.

Contents:

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

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

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

Do American historical narratives travel?/ Francois 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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612359538

9781282359536

1282359533

9780520936034

0520936035

9781597348638

1597348635

OCLC:

55530116