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Outside In : The Transnational Circuitry of US History

Preston, Andrew, 1973- editor, Rossinow, Douglas C. (Douglas Charles), editor

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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. 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\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Subject: Transnationalism Political aspects United States History. / Social networks Political aspects United States History. / Political culture United States History. / Internationalism Social aspects United States History. / United States Relations. / United States Foreign relations. / United States History 1865- / United States Social conditions.
• ISBN: 9780190459857, 9780190459840

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
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