| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
A Fletcher Jones Foundation book in the humanities |
| Contents |
Preface : location and history / Nicolas Barreyre, Michael Heale, Stephen Tuck, and Cécile Vidal -- Watersheds in time and place : writing American history in Europe / Michael Heale, Sylvia Hilton, Halina Parafianowicz, Paul Schor, and Maurizio Vaudagna -- Using the American past for the present : European historians and the politics of writing American history / Tibor Frank, Martin Klimke, and Stephen Tuck -- Institutions, careers, and the many paths of U.S. history in Europe / Max Edling, Vincent Michelot, Jörg Nagler, Sandra Scanlon, and Irmina Wawrzyczek -- Straggling intellectual worlds : positionality and the writing of American history / Nicolas Barreyre, Manfred Berg, and Simon Middleton -- Writing American history from Europe : the elusive substance of the comparative approach / Susanna Delfino, and Marcus Gräser -- Foreign relations in European perspectives : geopolitics and the writing of history / Hans Krabbendam, Pauline Peretz, Mario Del Pero, and Helle Porsdam -- Location and the conceptualization of historical frameworks : "early American history" and its multiple reconfigurations in the US and in Europe / Trevor Burnard, and Cécile Vidal -- Positionality, ambidexterity, and global frames / Thomas Bender -- Reflections from Russia / Ivan Kurilla -- Doing U.S. history abroad : a comparative perspective from Australia / Ian Tyrrell -- Viewing American history from Japan : the potential of comparison / Natsuki Aruga -- Not quite at home : writing American history in Denmark / David Nye -- American history in the shadow of empire : a plea for marginality / François Furstenberg |
| Summary |
In this stimulating and highly original study of the writing of American history, twenty-four scholars from eleven European countries explore the impact of writing history from abroad. Six distinguished scholars from around the world add their commentaries. Arguing that historical writing is conditioned, crucially, by the place from which it is written, this volume identifies the formative impact of a wide variety of institutional and cultural factors that are commonly overlooked. Examining how American history is written from Europe, the contributors shed light on how history is written in the |
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american historiography |
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american history |
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conditioned historical writing |
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critical approach |
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cultural influences |
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engaging |
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europe |
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european scholars |
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global history |
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historians |
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historical writing |
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historical |
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historiography |
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history students |
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history |
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how historians work |
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innovative |
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institutional influences |
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international approach |
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politics |
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teaching of history |
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transnational history |
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united states of america |
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writing history abroad |
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writing history |
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writing of american history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd |
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Europa gnd |
| Subject |
Historiography -- Europe
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HISTORY -- Historiography.
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HISTORY -- United States -- General.
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Historiography
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Education
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Geschichtsschreibung
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Geschichtswissenschaft
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140129
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United States -- History -- Study and teaching -- Europe
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| Subject |
Europe
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1306463343 |
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9781306463348 |
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0520958055 |
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9780520958050 |
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