Comment: The futures of transnational history

American Historical Review

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 130-139

  Guterl, Matthew Pratt ^a  

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EID: 84875887616     PISSN: 00028762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ahr/118.1.130     Document Type: Review

References (33)

1. For great demonstrations, see Micol Seigel, Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States (Durham, N.C., 2008);
2. Martha Hodes, The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century (New York, 2006);
3. Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing (Princeton, N.J., 2002).
4. " Deborah N. Cohn, History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction (Nashville, 1999);
5. George B. Handley, New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott (Athens, Ga., 2010);
6. David Luis-Brown, Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States (Durham, N.C., 2008).
7. Adam Rothman, Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South (Cambridge, Mass., 2007);
8. Edward E. Baptist, Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War (Chapel Hill, N.C., 2002);
9. Edward Bartlett Rugemer, The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War (Baton Rouge, 2009).
10. Brent Hayes Edwards, The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Cambridge, Mass., 2003);
11. Michelle Ann Stephens, Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914-1962 (Durham, N.C., 2005).
12. Thomas Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena (Cambridge, Mass., 2003);
13. Mary L. Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Princeton, N.J., 2000);
14. Kevin K. Gaines, American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era (Chapel Hill, N.C., 2006);
15. Brenda Gayle Plummer, ed., Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988 (Chapel Hill, N.C., 2003);
16. Penny Von Eschen, Raceagainst Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 (Ithaca, N.Y., 1997);
17. Von Eschen, Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War (Cambridge, Mass., 2005).
18. Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo, Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth Century (Philadelphia, 2005);
19. Adam McKeown, Chinese Migration Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, Hawaii, 1900-1936 (Chicago, 2001);
20. Matthew Frye Jacobson, Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States (Cambridge, Mass., 1995).
21. I confess: I am critiquing myself here, too. The quote comes from Matthew Pratt Guterl, American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation (Cambridge, Mass., 2008), 11.
22. One partial exception is Christine Skwiot, The Purposes of Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Cuba and Hawai'i (Philadelphia, 2012). Skwiot's work is notable for its two-hundred-year sweep, and for its startling comparative method.
23. William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming" (1920), reprinted in Richard J. Finneran, ed., The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, vol. 1: The Poems (New York, 1989), 187.
24. Brooke L. Blower, Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture between the World Wars (New York, 2011).
25. Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Cambridge, Mass., 2000);
26. David Levering Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century (New York, 2001);
27. Jacobson, Special Sorrows; Leila J. Rupp, Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement (Princeton, N.J., 1997).
28. The classic example is Amy Kaplan, " 'Left Alone with America': The Absence of Empire in the Study of American Culture," in Amy Kaplan and Donald E. Pease, eds., Cultures of United States Imperialism (Durham, N.C., 1993), 3-21.
29. Rodrigo Lazo, "Migrant Archives: New Routes in and out of American Studies," in Russ Cas-tronovo and Susan Gillman, eds., States of Emergency: The Object of American Studies (Chapel Hill, N.C., 2009), 36-54.
30. Michael Adas, Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance (Ithaca, N.Y., 1990).
31. Lazo, "Migrant Archives," 37-38.
32. Russ Castronovo and Susan Gillman, "The Study of the American Problems," in Castronovo and Gillman, States of Emergency, 1-16, here 3.
33. A reference, of course, to Thomas Bender's fundamental essay "Wholes and Parts: The Need for Synthesis in American History," Journal of American History 73, no. 1 (June 1986): 120-136.