Intercultural Transfers and the Making of the Modern World, 1800-2000: Sources and Contexts

by Thomas Adam

Overview

For far too long, the history of the modern era has been written as a history of isolated nation states. This book which presents both interpretation and primary source documents challenges a nation-centred account, exploring the interconnected and interrelated nature of societies in the nineteenth and twentieth century.

Responding to the burgeoning interest and number of courses in global and world history, Intercultural Transfers and the Making of the Modern World introduces both the methods and materials of transnational history. Case studies highlight transnational connections through the examples of cooperatives, housing reform, education, eugenics and non-violent resistance. By embracing the interconnected nature of human history across continents and oceans and by employing the concept of intercultural transfer, Adam explores the roots and global distribution of major transformations and their integration into local, regional, and national contexts. This is an invaluable resource for the study of global, world and transnational history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350307940
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	11/29/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	168
Sales rank:	865,071
File size:	544 KB

About the Author

THOMAS ADAM Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA. He is the author of Buying Respectability: Philanthropy and Urban Society in Transnational Perspective, 1840s to 1930s and editor of the three-volume encyclopaedia Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics and History.
Thomas Adam is Full Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Arkansas, USA. He is an historian by training who has extensively researched the tradition of philanthropy in Europe and North America from the Middle Ages to the present time. His publications include Philanthropy, Civil Society, and the State in German History, 1815-1989 (Camden House 2016), Transnational Philanthropy: The Mond Family's Support for Public Institutions in Western Europe from 1890 to 1938 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), and Buying Respectability: Philanthropy and Urban Society in Transnational Perspective, 1840s to 1930s (Indiana University Press 2009).

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: The Nature of Intercultural Transfer
Cooperatives and Capitalism: The Democratization of the Economy
Better Housing for Better Citizens: Octavia Hill's Worldwide Appeal to Housing Reform
Better Citizens for a Better Future? The Transnational Transfer of Eugenics
From Memorization to Problem-Solving: Maria Montessori's Contribution to School Reform in the Twentieth Century
Change Through Non-Violence: The Rationalization of Conflict Solution
Suggestions For Further Reading
Bibliography.

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An exemplary set of case studies in transnational history.' - Ian Tyrrell, Scientia Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Australia

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"[A]n exemplary set of case studies in transnational history." -- Ian Tyrrell, Scientia Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Australia

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