
Connected Worlds
History in Transnational Perspective
ANU Press
Published on 1. March 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
278 pages
978-1-920942-44-1 (ISBN)
Description
This volume brings together historians of imperialism and race, travel and modernity, Islam and India, the Pacific and the Atlantic to show how a 'transnational' approach to history offers fresh insights into the past. Transnational history is a form of scholarship that has been revolutionising our understanding of history in the last decade. With a focus on interconnectedness across national borders of ideas, events, technologies and individual lives, it moves beyond the national frames of analysis that so often blinker and restrict our understanding of the past. Many of the essays also show how expertise in 'Australian history' can contribute to and benefit from new transnational approaches to history. Through an examination of such diverse subjects as film, modernity, immigration, politics and romance, Connected Worlds weaves an historical matrix which transports the reader beyond the local into a realm which re-defines the meaning of humanity in all its complexity. Contributors include Tony Ballantyne, Desley Deacon, John Fitzgerald, Patrick Wolfe and Angela Woollacott.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Canberra
Australia
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
1 Index
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 176 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
667 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-920942-44-1 (9781920942441)
DOI
10.22459/CW.03.2006
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