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Considers the enduring role of the nation in national historiography
Evaluates the influence and the limits of transnational approaches on national historical narratives
Offers a unique appraisal of transnational readings of Australian history, its accessibility, and its interest in historical practice
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Crossing Borders: New Transnational Histories
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National Histories in an Age of Transnationalism
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Intimacy and Transnationalism: Reading Vernacular Histories
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About this book
Using Australian history as a case study, this collection explores the ways national identities still resonate in historical scholarship and reexamines key moments in Australian history through a transnational lens, raising important questions about the unique context of Australia’s national narrative. The book examines the tension between national and transnational perspectives, attempting to internationalize the often parochial nation-based narratives that characterize national history.
Moving from the local and personal to the global, encompassing comparative and international research and drawing on the experiences of researchers working across nations and communities, this collection brings together diverging national and transnational approaches and asks several critical research questions: What is transnational history? How do new transnational readings of the past challenge conventional national narratives and approaches? What are implications of transnational and international approaches on Australian history? What possibilities do they bring to the discipline? What are their limitations? And finally, how do we understand the nation in this transnational moment?
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Editors and Affiliations
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University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Anna Clark
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La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Anne Rees
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Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Alecia Simmonds
About the editors
Anna Clark is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Public History at the University of Technology, Sydney. With Stuart Macintyre, she wrote the History Wars in 2003, which was awarded the NSW Premier’s Prize for Australian History and the Queensland Premier’s Prize for Best Literary or Media Work Advancing Public Debate.
Anne Rees is a David Myers Research Fellow at La Trobe University, Australia. Previously she was a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Junior Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia. She holds History degrees from the Australian National University and University College London, and her work has been published in Australian Feminist Studies, Australian Historical Studies and History Australia.
Alecia Simmonds is the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Law at University of Technology, Sydney, a lecturer in Australian and Pacific history at NYU-Sydney and the Book Review editor of Law and History. She is an inter-disciplinary scholar whose work focuses on the relationship between emotion, imperialism and law. Her book, Wild Man, was published October 2015 and has received excellent reviews.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transnationalism, Nationalism and Australian History
Editors: Anna Clark, Anne Rees, Alecia Simmonds
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5017-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-5016-9Published: 20 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5293-5Published: 09 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-5017-6Published: 04 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 199
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, International Relations, Asian Culture, Australasian History