Transnational Nation

Transnational Nation

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A fresh, comparative perspective on the relationship between events and movements in the US and wider world.
The development of nationalism, the movement of peoples, imperialism, industrialization, environmental change and the struggle for equality are all key themes in the study of both US history and world history. US history is increasingly being studied in a global context, and no study of world history can fail to take account of the impact of the US. Ian Tyrrell offers a fresh, comparative perspective on the relationship between events and movements in the US and wider world.
IAN TYRRELL is Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His teaching and research interests include American history, environmental history, comparative women’s history and historiography. His previous publications include Historians in Public: The Practice of American History, 1890-1970 (2005).

“Transnational Nation will help world historians to understand better the vexed and conflicted history
of the US relationship to global engagement. And, while the specific American combination of global pull and national insularity may be unique, its broad outlines are not, as the histories of China, Japan,
Russia, or England would show. Without intending to, Transnational Nation provides an attractive template for producing a globally-informed history of any modern great power.”
—Journal of Global History

Preface * Introduction * Born in the Struggles of Empires: The American Republic in War and Revolution, 1789-1815 * Commerce Pervades the World: Economic Connections and Disconnections * The Beacon of Improvement: Political and Social Reform * People in Motion: Nineteenth-Century Migration Experiences * Unwilling Immigrants and Diaspora Dreams * Racial and Ethnic Frontiers * America’s Civil War and Its World Historical Implications * How Culture Travelled: Going Abroad, c. 1865-1914 * Building the Nation-state in the Progressive Era: The Transnational Context * The Empire That Did Not Know Its Name * The New World Order in the Era of Woodrow Wilson * Forces of Integration: War and the Coming of the American Century, 1925-1970 * Insular Impulses: Limits on International Integration, 1925 to 1970 * From the 1970s to New Globalization: American Transnational Power and its Limits, 1971-2001 * “Nothing Will Ever Be the Same”: 9/11 and the Return of History * Further Reading * Index

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Weight 1 oz
Dimensions 1 × 6 × 9 in