Connected worlds : history in trans-national perspective /
"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 revo...
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ANU E Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Ann Curthoys and Marilyn Lake
- Different Modes of Transnational History. Putting the nation in its place?: world history and C.A. Bayly's The Birth of the Modern World / Tony Ballantyne
- Paths not yet taken, voices not yet heard: rethinking Atlantic history / Michael A. McDonnell
- Postcolonial histories and Catherine Hall's Civilising Subjects / Angela Woollacott
- Migration and Other Voyages. Steal a handkerchief, see the world: the trans-oceanic voyaging of Thomas Limpus / Emma Christopher
- Revolution and respectability: Chinese Masons in Australian history / John Fitzgerald
- 'Innocents abroad' and 'prohibited immigrants': Australians in India and Indians in Australia 1890-1910 / Margaret Allen
- Postwar British emigrants and the 'transnational moment': exemplars of a 'mobility of modernity'? / A. James Hammerton
- Modernity, Film and Romance. 'Films as foreign offices': transnationalism at Paramount in the twenties and early thirties / Desley Deacon
- Modern nomads and national film history: the multi-continental career of J.D. Williams / Jill Julius Matthews
- The Americanisation of romantic love in Australia: Hsu-Ming Teo
- Transnational Racial Politics. Transcultural/transnational interaction and influences on Aboriginal Australia / John Maynard
- From Mississippi to Melbourne via Natal: the invention of the literacy test as a technology of racial exclusion / Marilyn Lake Postcolonial Transnationalism. Islam, Europe and Indian nationalism: towards a postcolonial transnationalism / Patrick Wolfe.