Rethinking American History in a Global Age

Name: Rethinking American History in a Global Age
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ISBN: 9780520230583

ISBN-10: 0520230582

ISBN-13: 9780520230583

Edition: 2001

Authors: Thomas Bender

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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 calledglobalizationis 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…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/14/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 438
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


Historians, the Nation, and the Plenitude of Narratives




Historicizing the Nation



New Historical Geographies and Temporalities



Opening the Frame



The Constraints of Practice


Appendix


Participants in the La Pietra Conferences, 1997-2000


Contributors


Index