Outside In: The Transnational Circuitry of US History
Outside In presents the newest scholarship that narrates and explains the history of the United States as part of a networked transnational past. This work tells the stories of Americans who inhabited the border-crossing circuitry of people, ideas, and institutions that have made the modern world a worldly place. Forsaking manifestos of transnational history and surveys of existing scholarship for fresh research, careful attention to concrete situations and transactions, and original interpretation, the vigorous, accomplished historians whose work is collected here show how the transnational history of the United States is actually being written. Ranging from high statecraft to political ferment from below, from the history of religion to the discourse of women's rights, from the political left to the political right, from conservative businessmen to African diaspora radicals, this set of original essays narrates U.S. history in new ways, emphasizing the period from 1870 to the present. The essays in Outside In demonstrate the inadequacy of any unidirectional concept of "the U.S. and the world," although they stress the worldly forces that have shaped Americans. At the same time, these essays disrupt and complicate the very idea of simple inward and outward flows of influence, showing how Americans lived within transnational circuits featuring impacts and influences running in multiple directions. Outside In also transcends the divide between work focusing on the international system of nation-states and transnational history that treats non-state actors exclusively. The essays assembled here show how to write transnational history that takes the nation-state seriously, explaining that governments and non-state actors were never sealed off from one another in the modern world. These essays point the way toward a more concrete and fully internationalized vision of modern American history.
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Outside In: The Transnational Circuitry of US History
Outside In presents the newest scholarship that narrates and explains the history of the United States as part of a networked transnational past. This work tells the stories of Americans who inhabited the border-crossing circuitry of people, ideas, and institutions that have made the modern world a worldly place. Forsaking manifestos of transnational history and surveys of existing scholarship for fresh research, careful attention to concrete situations and transactions, and original interpretation, the vigorous, accomplished historians whose work is collected here show how the transnational history of the United States is actually being written. Ranging from high statecraft to political ferment from below, from the history of religion to the discourse of women's rights, from the political left to the political right, from conservative businessmen to African diaspora radicals, this set of original essays narrates U.S. history in new ways, emphasizing the period from 1870 to the present. The essays in Outside In demonstrate the inadequacy of any unidirectional concept of "the U.S. and the world," although they stress the worldly forces that have shaped Americans. At the same time, these essays disrupt and complicate the very idea of simple inward and outward flows of influence, showing how Americans lived within transnational circuits featuring impacts and influences running in multiple directions. Outside In also transcends the divide between work focusing on the international system of nation-states and transnational history that treats non-state actors exclusively. The essays assembled here show how to write transnational history that takes the nation-state seriously, explaining that governments and non-state actors were never sealed off from one another in the modern world. These essays point the way toward a more concrete and fully internationalized vision of modern American history.
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Outside In: The Transnational Circuitry of US History

Outside In: The Transnational Circuitry of US History

Outside In: The Transnational Circuitry of US History

Outside In: The Transnational Circuitry of US History

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Outside In presents the newest scholarship that narrates and explains the history of the United States as part of a networked transnational past. This work tells the stories of Americans who inhabited the border-crossing circuitry of people, ideas, and institutions that have made the modern world a worldly place. Forsaking manifestos of transnational history and surveys of existing scholarship for fresh research, careful attention to concrete situations and transactions, and original interpretation, the vigorous, accomplished historians whose work is collected here show how the transnational history of the United States is actually being written. Ranging from high statecraft to political ferment from below, from the history of religion to the discourse of women's rights, from the political left to the political right, from conservative businessmen to African diaspora radicals, this set of original essays narrates U.S. history in new ways, emphasizing the period from 1870 to the present. The essays in Outside In demonstrate the inadequacy of any unidirectional concept of "the U.S. and the world," although they stress the worldly forces that have shaped Americans. At the same time, these essays disrupt and complicate the very idea of simple inward and outward flows of influence, showing how Americans lived within transnational circuits featuring impacts and influences running in multiple directions. Outside In also transcends the divide between work focusing on the international system of nation-states and transnational history that treats non-state actors exclusively. The essays assembled here show how to write transnational history that takes the nation-state seriously, explaining that governments and non-state actors were never sealed off from one another in the modern world. These essays point the way toward a more concrete and fully internationalized vision of modern American history.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780190459871
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 11/15/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 336
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Andrew Preston is Professor of American History and a Fellow of Clare College at Cambridge University. He is the author of The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam and Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy. Doug Rossinow is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oslo. He is the author of The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s and The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction- Andrew Preston and Doug Rossinow Chapter 1: The Monroe Doctrine in the Nineteenth Century- Jay Sexton Chapter 2: Globalization's Paradox: Economic Interdependence and Global Governance- Daniel Sargent Chapter 3: A "Badge of Advanced Liberalism": The Place of Woman Suffrage in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Political Thought- Leslie A. Butler Chapter 4: White Men's Wages: The Australian/American Campaign for a Legislated Living Wage- Marilyn Lake Chapter 5: American Protestant Missionaries, Moral Reformers and the Reinterpretation of American"Expansion" in the Late Nineteenth Century- Ian Tyrrell Chapter 6: The Body in Crisis: Congo and the Transformations of Evangelical Internationalism, 1960-65- Melani McAlister Chapter 7: Extracted Truths: The Politics of God and Black Gold on a Global Stage - Darren Dochuk Chapter 8: A Union of all Oppressed Peoples: The International Congress against Imperialism and the International Circuits of Black Radicalism- Minkah Makalani Chapter 9: "The South's No. 1 Salesman": Luther Hodges and the Transatlantic Origins of the Global Nueva South- Elizabeth Tandy Shermer Chapter 10: The Dirty War Network: Right-Wing Internationalism through Cold War America- Doug Rossinow Chapter 11: American Internationalists in France and the Politics of Travel Control in the Long 1960s- Moshik Temkin
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