The global view of the United States

Historical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 261-276

  Sexton, Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPOLITICS; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 19644367758     PISSN: 0018246X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X04004297     Document Type: Review

References (113)

1. Thomas W. Zeiler, 'Just do it! Globalization for diplomatic historians', Diplomatic History, 25 (2001), p. 551.
2. Thomas Bender, ed., Rethinking American history in a global age (Berkeley, 2002).
3. Bender, 'Introduction', in ibid., p. 12.
4. Karen Ordahl Kupperman, 'International at the creation: early modern American history', in ibid., pp. 103-22.
5. Dirk Hoerder, 'From Euro- and Afro-Atlantic to Pacific migration system: a comparative migration approach to North American history', in ibid., pp. 195-235.
6. Robin D. G. Kelley, 'How the west was one: the African diaspora and the re-mapping of U.S. history', in ibid., pp. 123-47;
7. Walter Johnson, 'Time and revolution in African America: temporality and the history of Atlantic slavery', in ibid., pp. 148-67.
8. Frank Trommler and Elliott Shore, eds., The German-American encounter: conflict and cooperation between two cultures, 1800-2000 (Oxford, 2001).
9. Lily Gardner Feldman, 'The Jewish role in German-American relations', in ibid., pp. 179-87;
10. Moshe Zuckermann, 'The Israeli and German Holocaust discourses and their transatlantic dimension', in ibid., pp. 188-97;
11. and Manfred Henningsen, 'The place of the Holocaust in the American economy of evil', in ibid., pp. 198-211.
12. James M. Bergquist, 'The forty-eighters: catalysts of German-American politics', in ibid., pp. 22-36.
13. Daniel Fallon, 'German influences on American education', in ibid., pp. 77-87.
14. Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic crossings: social politics in a progressive age (Cambridge, MA, 1998).
15. Daniel T. Rodgers, 'An age of social politics', in Bender, ed., Rethinking, p. 260.
16. A few examples of transnational literature on these topics include Betty Fladeland, Men and brothers: Anglo-American antislavery cooperation (Urbana, 1972);
17. John Cumbler, 'New England radical reformers, 1830-1890', paper given to American History Research Seminar, University of Cambridge, 10 November 2003;
18. Lawrence Goldman, 'Exceptionalism and internationalism: the origins of American social science reconsidered', Journal of Historical Sociology, 11 (1998), pp. 1-36.
19. Daniel Feller, 'Rediscovering Jacksonian America', in Melvyn Stokes, ed., The state of U.S. history (New York, 2002), p. 81.
20. See, for example, Ralph Hidy, The house of Baring in American trade and finance (Cambridge, MA, 1949)
21. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings, pp. 502-8.
22. A few illustrative examples include Amy Kaplan and Donald E. Pease, Cultures of United States imperialism (Duke, 1993);
23. Richard Pells, Not like us: how Europeans have loved, hated, and transformed American culture since World War II (New York, 1997);
24. R. Wagnleitner and E. T. May, eds., Here, there, and everywhere: the foreign politics of American culture (Hanover, NH, 2000);
25. R. Laurence Moore and Maurizio Vaudagna, eds., The American century in Europe (Ithaca, 2003).
26. Rob Kroes, 'American empire and cultural imperialism: a view from the receiving end', in Bender, ed., Rethinking, pp. 295-313.
27. See, for example, Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht, 'Shame on US? Academics, cultural transfer, and the Cold War: a critical review', Diplomatic History, 24 (2000), pp. 465-94;
28. and the proceeding commentary of Richard Pells, Bruce Kuklick, John Dower, and Richard Kuisel. See also the response of Tony Smith on h-net.org/∼diplo on 7 Aug. 2000.
29. For an exploration of Fordism in Germany, see Volker R. Berghahn, 'Fordism and West German industrial culture, 1945-1989', in Trommler and Shore, eds., The German-American encounter, pp. 145-57.
30. Holger Nehring, '"Westernization": a new paradigm for interpreting West European history in a Cold War context', Cold War History, 4 (2004), pp. 175-91.
31. Quote from ibid.
32. Geir Lundestad, 'Empire by invitation? The United States and Western Europe, 1945-1952', Journal of Peace Research, 23 (1986), pp. 263-77;
33. John Lewis Gaddis, We now know: rethinking Cold War history (Oxford, 1997).
34. Marc Trachtenberg, ed., Between empire and alliance: America and Europe during the Cold War (Oxford, 2003).
35. Marc Trachtenberg and Christopher Gehrz, 'America, Europe, and German rearmament, August-September 1950: a critique of a myth', in ibid., pp. 1-32.
36. Wolfram Kaiser, 'Trigger-happy Protestant materialists? The European Christian Democrats and the United States', in ibid., pp. 63-82.
37. Trachtenberg and Gehrz, 'America, Europe, and German rearmament, August-September 1950';
38. Paul M. Pitman, '"A general named Eisenhower": Atlantic crisis and the origins of the European Economic Community', in ibid., pp. 33-61;
39. Hubert Zimmermann, 'Western Europe and the American challenge: conflict and cooperation in technology and monetary policy, 1965-1973', in ibid., pp. 127-55.
40. For an excellent introduction to American-European relations in the twentieth century that does anticipate these new interpretations, see David Ryan, The United States and Europe in the twentieth century (London, 2003).
41. Ian Tyrrell, 'American exceptionalism in an age of international history', American Historical Review, 96 (1991), pp. 1031-55.
42. Hans R. Guggisberg, 'American exceptionalism as national history?' in Elisabeth Glaser and Hermann Wellenreuther, eds., Bridging the Atlantic: the question of American exceptionalism in perspective (Cambridge, 2002).
43. Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks, It didn't happen here: why socialism failed in the United States (New York, 2001), p. 10;
44. Guggisberg, 'American exceptionalism as national history?', p. 266.
45. Frank Thistlethwaite, America and the Atlantic community: Anglo-American aspects, 1790-1850 (New York, 1959);
46. David Brion Davis, The problem of slavery in Western culture (Ithaca, 1967);
47. Robert Kelley, The transatlantic persuasion: the Liberal-Democratic mind in the age of Gladstone (New York, 1969);
48. Richard Carwardine, Transatlantic revivalism: popular evangelicalism in Britain and America, 1795-1865 (Westport, CT, 1978).
49. D. P. Crook, American democracy in English politics, 1815-1850 (Oxford, 1965);
50. Christopher Harvie, The lights of liberalism: university liberals and the challenge of democracy, 1860-1886 (London, 1976).
51. Guggisberg, 'American exceptionalism as national history?', p. 275.
52. Lipset and Marks, It didn't happen here.
53. Ibid., p. 270.
54. Joyce Appleby, 'Recovering America's historic diversity: beyond exceptionalism', Journal of American History, 79 (1992), pp. 419-31;
55. Daniel T. Rodgers, 'Exceptionalism', in Anthony Molho and Gordon S. Wood, eds., Imagined histories: American historians interpret the past (Princeton, 1998), pp. 22-3.
56. Rodgers, 'Exceptionalism', pp. 22-3.
57. For this point see the essays in Rick Halpern and Jonathan Morris, eds., American exceptionalism?: US working-class formation in an international context (London, 1997), esp. Halpern and Morris, 'The persistence of exceptionalism: class formation and the comparative method', pp. 6-7;
58. Sean Wilentz, 'Against exceptionalism: class consciousness and the American labor movement', International Labor and Working Class History, 26 (1984), pp. 1-24;
59. Mary Nolan, 'Against exceptionalisms', American Historical Review, 102 (1997), pp. 769-74.
60. Eric Rauchway, 'More means different: quantifying American exceptionalism', Reviews in American History, 30 (2002), pp. 504-16.
61. These issues are best explored in Rodgers, Atlantic crossings, but there is certainly room for further research. The Populists and Grangers, nineteenth-century agrarian radicals, were inspired by the 'Rochdale plan' of co-operatives.
62. For an elucidation of this point, see, George M. Fredrickson, 'From exceptionalism to variability: recent developments in cross-national comparative history', Journal of American History, 82 (1995), pp. 587-604.
63. Appleby, 'Recovering America's historic diversity'.
64. Ari Hoogenboom, 'American exceptionalism: republicanism as ideology', in Glaser and Wellenreuther, eds., Bridging the Atlantic, pp. 43-65, quoted at p. 52.
65. Gerald Stourzh, 'Liberal democracy as a culture of rights: England, the United States, and Continental Europe', in ibid., pp. 11-41, quoted at p. 40.
66. Carl N. Degler, 'The impact of Darwinism on religion and science', in ibid., pp. 83-102, quoted at p. 91.
67. Peter Krüger, 'Transatlantic history as national history? Thoughts on German post-World War II historiography', in ibid., pp. 245-63;
68. Guggisberg, 'American exceptionalism as national history?', pp. 265-76;
69. Hermann Wellenreuther, 'The historical world of Erich Angermann', in ibid., pp. 277-99.
70. Charles S. Maier, 'Marking time: the historiography of international relations', in Michael Kammen ed., The past before us (Ithaca, 1980), pp. 355-87;
71. Michael Hogan, 'The "next big thing": the future of diplomatic history in a global age', Diplomatic History, 28 (2004), pp. 1-20.
72. A few examples, Mary Renda, Taking Haiti: military occupation and the culture of U.S. imperialism, 1915-1940 (Chapel Hill, 2001);
73. Kristen Hoganson, Fighting for American manhood: how gender politics provoked the Spanish American and Philippine-American wars (New Haven, 1998);
74. Thomas Borstlemann, The Cold War and the color line: American race relations in the global arena (Cambridge, MA, 2001).
75. Gaddis, We now know.
76. Michael Hunt, 'Internationalizing U.S. diplomatic history: a practical agenda', Diplomatic History, 15 (1991), pp. 1-11.
77. Akire Iriye, 'Internationalizing international history', in Bender, ed., Rethinking, p. 51.
78. Alfred E. Eckes, Jr. and Thomas W. Zeiler, Globalization and the American century (Cambridge, 2003).
79. Zeiler, 'Just do it!', p. 531.
80. For examples of the New Left diplomatic history see William Appleman Williams, The tragedy of American diplomacy (New York, 1962, revised edn);
81. Walter LaFeber, The new empire: an interpretation of American expansion, 1860-1898 (Ithaca, 1963);
82. Lloyd C. Gardner, Economic aspects of New Deal diplomacy (Madison, 1964);
83. Thomas J. McCormick, China market: America's quest for informal empire, 1893-1901 (Chicago, 1967);
84. William Appleman Williams, ed., From colony to empire: essays in the history of American foreign relations (New York, 1972).
85. Williams, The tragedy of American diplomacy, pp. 39-40.
86. Zeiler, 'Just do it!', p. 535.
87. For this point and the classic critique of the New Left see J. A. Thompson, 'William Appleman Williams and the "American Empire"', Journal of American Studies, 7 (1975), pp. 91-104.
88. Eckes and Zeiler, Globalization, p. 81.
89. Ibid., p. 5.
90. Ibid., pp. 176-83.
91. Ibid., p. 178.
92. Ibid., pp. 258-9.
93. Marilyn B. Young, 'The age of global power', in Bender, ed., Rethinking, pp. 374-94.
94. See issues of Journal of American History, 79, 2; 85, 4; 86, 2; and 86, 3.
95. Hogan, 'The "next big thing"', pp. 18-20.
96. Carl J. Guarneri, 'Internationalizing the United States survey course: American history for a global age', The History Teacher, 36 (2002), pp. 37-64. Paradoxically, as universities move toward a more global approach, conservative members of state boards of education (who oversee high school education standards) are attempting to block the teaching of global history by setting criteria for standardized tests that emphasize local and national history. Such is the case in this author's home state of Kansas. A similar strategy was employed there to discourage the teaching of evolution in 1999.
97. See The Lawrence Journal World, 9 July 2004.
98. See especially Ian Tyrrell, 'Beyond the view from Euro-America: environment, settler societies, and the internationalization of American history', in Bender, ed., Rethinking, p. 168.
99. Bernard Bailyn, 'Reflections on the contours of Atlantic history', lecture co-sponsored by CRASSH and the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, 12 Mar. 2004.
100. Kinley Brauer, 'The great American desert revisited: recent literature and prospects for the study of American foreign relations, 1815-1860', in Michael J. Hogan, ed., Paths to power: the historiography of American foreign relations to 1941 (Cambridge, 2000), p. 49.
101. John Jay, 'Federalist No. 5', in James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, The Federalist (London, 2000, reprint).
102. Kinley Brauer, 'The United States and British imperial expansion, 1815-1860', Diplomatic History, 12 (Winter 1988), pp. 19-37.
103. For a work that makes this point in the context of nineteenth-century foreign relations, see Bradford Perkins, 'Interests, values, and the prism: the sources of American foreign policy', Journal of the Early Republic, 14 (1994), pp. 458-66.
104. David Thelen, 'The nation and beyond: transnational perspectives on United States history', Journal of American History, 86 (1999), p. 967.
105. See also David Thelan, 'Making history and making the United States', Journal of American Studies, 32 (1998), pp. 373-98.
106. Kroes, 'American empire and cultural imperialism', p. 296.
107. Charles Bright and Michael Geyer, 'Where in the world is America?: the history of the United States in the global age', in Bender, ed., Rethinking, p. 66;
108. David Hollinger, 'The historian's use of the United States and vice versa', in ibid., pp. 381-95.
109. Michael McGerr, 'The price of the "New Transnational History"', American Historical Review, 96 (1991), pp. 1056-67;
110. Bright and Geyer, 'Where in the world is America?', in ibid., pp. 63-99;
111. Hollinger, 'The historian's use of the United States and vice versa', in ibid., pp. 381-95;
112. Krüger, 'Transatlantic history as national history?'.
113. Bender, 'Introduction', in Bender, ed., Rethinking, p. 10.