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Rethinking American History in a Global Age

Author: Thomas Bender

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 withcontemporary concerns for American identity, structures of power, and world presence.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Introduction: Historians, the Nation, and the Plenitude of Narratives	1
Pt. I	Historicizing the Nation	23
1	Transnationalism and the Challenge to National Histories	25
2	Internationalizing International History	47
3	Where in the World Is America? The History of the United States in the Global Age	63
Pt. II	New Historical Geographies and Temporalities	101
4	International at the Creation: Early Modern American History	103
5	How the West Was One: The African Diaspora and the Re-Mapping of U.S. History	123
6	Time and Revolution in African America: Temporality and the History of Atlantic Slavery	148
7	Beyond the View from Euro-America: Environment, Settler Societies, and the Internationalization of American History	168
Pt. III	Opening the Frame	193
8	From Euro- and Afro-Atlantic to Pacific Migration System: A Comparative Migration Approach to North American History	195
9	Framing U.S. History: Democracy, Nationalism, and Socialism	236
10	An Age of Social Politics	250
11	The Age of Global Power	274
12	American Empire and Cultural Imperialism: A View from the Receiving End	295
Pt. IV	The Constraints of Practice	315
13	Do American Historical Narratives Travel?	317
14	The Modernity of America and the Practice of Scholarship	343
15	The Exhaustion of Enclosures: A Critique of Internationalization	367
16	The Historian's Use of the United States and Vice Versa	381
App	Participants in the La Pietra Conferences, 1997-2000	397
	Contributors	401
	Index	405

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