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University of California Press
- Historians across Borders: Writing American History in a Global Age
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- 2014
- Published by: University of California Press
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In this stimulating and highly original study of the writing of American history, twenty-four scholars from eleven European countries explore the impact of writing history from abroad. Six distinguished scholars from around the world add their commentaries.
Arguing that historical writing is conditioned, crucially, by the place from which it is written, this volume identifies the formative impact of a wide variety of institutional and cultural factors that are commonly overlooked. Examining how American history is written from Europe, the contributors shed light on how history is written in the United States, and, indeed, on the way history is written anywhere. The innovative perspectives included in Historians across Borders are designed to reinvigorate American historiography as the rise of global and transnational history is creating a critical need to understand the impact of place on the writing and teaching of history.
This book is designed for students in historiography, global and transnational history, and related courses in the United States and abroad, for US historians, and for anyone interested in how historians work.
Arguing that historical writing is conditioned, crucially, by the place from which it is written, this volume identifies the formative impact of a wide variety of institutional and cultural factors that are commonly overlooked. Examining how American history is written from Europe, the contributors shed light on how history is written in the United States, and, indeed, on the way history is written anywhere. The innovative perspectives included in Historians across Borders are designed to reinvigorate American historiography as the rise of global and transnational history is creating a critical need to understand the impact of place on the writing and teaching of history.
This book is designed for students in historiography, global and transnational history, and related courses in the United States and abroad, for US historians, and for anyone interested in how historians work.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- Preface: Location and History
- pp. ix-xviii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xix-xx
- Part One: Historiography
- Part Two: Structures and Context
- Part Three: Internationalization(s) of U.S. History
- Part Four: Perspectives from Elsewhere
- 9. Reflections from Russia
- pp. 174-180
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 291-294
- List of Contributors
- pp. 295-298
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520958050
Related ISBN(s)
9780520279278
MARC Record
OCLC
879081917
Pages
343
Launched on MUSE
2014-05-03
Language
English
Open Access
No