The Familiar Made Strange : American Icons and Artifacts after the Transnational Turn / Brooke L. Blower, Mark Philip Bradley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blower, Brooke L., editor.

Bradley, Mark Philip, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, American, in literature.

National characteristics, American, in art.

Transnationalism.

United States--Historiography.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut across rather than stop at the nation's borders to model new interpretive approaches to studying United States history. These leading practitioners of the "transnational turn" pause to consider such famous icons as John Singleton Copley's painting Watson and the Shark, Alfred Eisenstaedt's photograph V-J Day, 1945, Times Square, and Alfred Kinsey's reports on sexual behavior, as well as more surprising but revealing artifacts like Josephine Baker's banana skirt and William Howard Taft's underpants. Together, they present a road map to the varying scales, angles and methods of transnational analysis that shed light on American politics, empire, gender, and the operation of power in everyday life.Contributors: Brooke L. Blower, Boston University; Mark Philip Bradley, University of Chicago; Nick Cullather, Indiana University; Brian DeLay, University of California-Berkeley; Matthew Pratt Guterl, Brown University; Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University; Mary A. Renda, Mount Holyoke College; Daniel T. Rodgers, Princeton University; Andrew J. Rotter, Colgate University; Brian Rouleau, Texas A&M University; Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Blower, Brooke L. / Bradley, Mark Philip

1. Watson and the Shark / DeLay, Brian

2. "Oh! Susanna" / Rouleau, Brian

3. "Mary Lyon, Massachusetts" / Renda, Mary A.

4. William Howard Taft's Drawers / Rotter, Andrew J.

5. Josephine Baker's Banana Skirt / Pratt Guterl, Matthew

6. V-J Day, 1945, Times Square / Blower, Brooke L.

7. The Kinsey Reports / Shibusawa, Naoko

8. The Quiet American / Logevall, Fredrik

9. That Touch of Mink / Cullather, Nick

10. The Immigration Reform Act of 1965 / Hoffnung-Garskof, Jesse

11. President Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Address / Bradley, Mark Philip

Conclusion / Rodgers, Daniel T.

Notes

Contributors

Index

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 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-8014-5546-4

OCLC:

905638546