Going transnational? News from down under: Transnational History Symposium, Canberra, Australian National University, September 2004

Historical Social Research

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 118-131

  Saunier, Pierre Yves ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

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References (21)

1. The 'Transnational History symposium' was organised by Ann Curthoys and Marilyn Lake, and took place at the Humanities Research Center of the Australian National University. The conference proceedings will be published by the ANU Press. The programme can be found at: http://www.anu.edu.au/hrc/conferences/ conference_archive/2004/TransNational_History.php.
2. One of the last volumes emanating of the project is Gabaccia, Donna; Iacovetta, Franca, Women, Gender and Transnational Lives. Italian Workers of the World, Toronto 2002.
3. McKeown, Adam, Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, Hawaii, 1900-1936, Chicago 2001.
4. Laird McLeod Easton, The Red Count. The Life and Times of Harry Kessler, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London 2002.
5. The Nation and Beyond: Transnational Perspectives on United States History, special issue, The Journal of American History 86 (1999). David Thelen, who set up this special issue, had authored several years ago the stimulating: Of audiences, borderlands and comparisons: toward the internationalisation of American history, in: The Journal of American History 79, issue 2, pp. 432-462.
6. The first can be found at http://www.oah.org/activities/lapietra/#Anchor- 20246. The other is Bender, Thomas (ed.), Rethinking American History in a Global Age, Berkeley 2002.
7. Respectively in: Making Nations/Making States. American Historians in the Context of Empire and: But a Local Phase of a World Problem: Black History's Global Vision, in: The Journal of American History 86 (1999), pp. 1015-72.
8. Cooper, Frederick, What is the concept of globalization good for? An African Historian's perspective, in: African affairs 100 (2001), pp. 189-213.
9. World History in a global age, in: The American Historical Review 100 (1996), pp. 1034-1060.
10. This proposal is formulated out of the control of the two authors, who shall not be made responsible for my interpretation of their contributions.
11. Sociologie de la mondialisation. Héritiers cosmopolites, mercenaires de l'impérialisme et missionnaires de l'universel, no 151-152, January 2004.
12. Werner, Michael; Zimmerman, Bénédicte, Penser l'histoire croisée: entre empirie et réflexivité, in: Annales. Histoire, sciences sociales 58 (2003), pp. 7-36 or: Vergleich, Transfer, Verflechtung. Der Ansatz der histoire croisée und die Herausforderung des Transnationalen, in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 28 (2002), pp. 607-636. They also co-edited a journal special issue exploring those methodological and epistemological tracks: De la comparaison à l'histoire croisée, Le Genre Humain, Paris 2004.
13. Some of the examples are taken out of Werner and Zimmermann's contributions, other fall into the responsibility of this author.
14. Material available at http://cassiopee.univ-yon3.fr/umr5600/chercheur/ saunier/index.htm.
15. For a contemporary assessment of this, see the convincing papers gathered by Callaghy, Thomas; Kassimir, Ronald ; Latham, Robert, Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa. GlobalLocal Networks of Power, Cambridge 2001.
16. Romero, Federico, La globalizzazione e la storia delle relazioni internazionali, Convegno SISSCO, Lecce, September 2003.
17. We Are the World: Internationalizing the National, Nationalizing the International, in: The Journal of American History 89 (2002).
18. Among the several pieces which I am indebted to in the writing of this report, I would like to add the followings for further reading into this direction: Cooper Frederick, Networks, moral discourses and history, in: Callaghy, Thomas; Kassimir, Ronald; Latham, Robert (eds.), Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa. Global-Local Networks of Power, Cambridge 2001, pp. 23-46; Tyrell, Ian, American exceptionalism in an age of international history, in: American Historical Review, 96 (1991), pp. 1031-72; Geyer, Martin; Paulmann, Johannes (eds.), The mechanics of internationalism. Culture, society and politics from the 1840s to the First World War, London 2003, the special issues of the Spanish journal Studia Historia focusing on 'La historia transnacional' in 1998, or the March 2004 issue of the Italian journal Contemporanea with its forum section on transnational history.
19. Often, original material is even more revealing than historical and sociological scholarships. Reading the correspondence between Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre, the men behind the Annales school, is one of those fascinating travels in the making of an historiographical revolution seen through its (inseparable) scientific and practical aspects. See Correspondance March Bloch - Lucien Febvre, 1928-1943, edited by Bertrand Müller, Paris 1994-2003, 3 vols.
20. See Winfried Fluck, 'The modernity of America and the practice of scholarship', in: Bender, Rethinking..., pp. 343-366.
21. This 'modest' attitude is very clear in Rethinking American History in a global age.