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Writing Transnational History

Series: Writing History
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Writing Transnational History explores the dynamic and diverse approaches to writing world history beyond national borders, emphasising movement and marginal perspectives. The book highlights the influence of postcolonial and feminist studies in reshaping transnational historiography, focusing on oceans, human migration, and peripheral contributions. It concludes by examining emerging concepts such as translocalism, offering an accessible chronology of the field and guiding new directions in global historical writing.
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This book is essential reading for students and scholars of historiography, world history, and related fields interested in global, postcolonial, and feminist approaches to history writing.

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Over the past two decades, transnational history has become an established term describing approaches to the writing of world or global history that emphasise movement, dynamism and diversity. Writing Transnational History investigates the emergence of the ‘transnational’ as an approach, its limits, and parameters.

It focuses particular attention on the contributions of postcolonial and feminist studies in reformulating transnational historiography as a move beyond the national to one focusing on oceans, the movement of people, and the contributions of the margins. It ends with a consideration of developing approaches such as translocalism.

The book considers the new kinds of history that need to be written now that the transnational perspective has become widespread. Providing an accessible and engaging chronology of the field, it will be key reading for students of historiography and world history.

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  • Writing Transnational History
    Over the past two decades, transnational history has become an established term describing approaches to the writing of world or global history that emphasise movement, dynamism and diversity. Writing Transnational History investigates the emergence of the ‘transnational’ as an approach, its limits, and parameters. It focuses particular attention on the contributions of postcolonial and feminist studies in reformulating transnational historiography...
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Praised for its readability and richness, this volume assembles leading paradigms in transnational history, particularly spotlighting gender, geopolitics, and subaltern lives. It distinguishes itself by centring previously marginalised scholarship, including feminist and Black Atlantic histories, which sharpen transnational analysis through attention to knowledge politics and power dynamics. Recommended by Professor Antoinette Burton as a vital and teachable resource.

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ISBN: 9781474263993

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 September 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 440g

Pages: 256

About the Author

Fiona Paisley is Professor of History at Griffith University, Australia. She is the author of The Lone Protestor: AM Fernando in Australia and London (2012), Glamour in the Pacific: Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women's Pan-Pacific (2009) and Across the World with the Johnsons: Visual Culture and American Empire in the Twentieth Century, co-authored with Prue Ahrens and Lamont Lindstrom (2013).

Pamela Scully is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Professor of African Studies, and Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at Emory University, USA. She is the author of Liberating the Family?: Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823-1853 (1997), the co-editor of Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World (2005), with Diana Paton and co-author of Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography (2009) with Clifton Crais. Her most recent book is Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (2016).

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