Preface: Location and History Nicolas Barreyre, Michael Heale, Stephen Tuck, and Cecile Vidal Acknowledgments Part One. Historiography 1. Watersheds in Time and Place: Writing American History in Europe Michael Heale, Sylvia Hilton, Halina Parafianowicz, Paul Schor, and Maurizio Vaudagna Part Two. Structures and Context 2. Using the American Past for the Present: European Historians and the Relevance of Writing American History Tibor Frank, Martin Klimke, and Stephen Tuck 3. Institutions, Careers, and the Many Paths of U.S. History in Europe Max Edling, Vincent Michelot, Jorg Nagler, Sandra Scanlon, and Irmina Wawrzyczek 4. Straggling Intellectual Worlds: Positionality and the Writing of American History Nicolas Barreyre, Manfred Berg, and Simon Middleton Part Three. Internationalization(s) of U.S. History 5. Writing American History from Europe: The Elusive Substance of the Comparative Approach Susanna Delfino and Marcus Graser 6. American Foreign Relations in European Perspectives: Geopolitics and the Writing of History 7. Location and the Conceptualization of Historical Frameworks: Early American History and Its Multiple Reconfigurations in the United States and in Europe 00 Trevor Burnard and Cecile Vidal Part Four. Perspectives from Elsewhere 8. Positionality, Ambidexterity, and Global Frames Thomas Bender 9. Reflections from Russia Ivan Kurilla 10. Doing U.S. History in Australia: A Comparative Perspective Ian Tyrrell 11. Viewing American History from Japan: The Potential of Comparison Natsuki Aruga 12. Not Quite at Home: Writing American History in Denmark David E. Nye 13. American History in the Shadow of Empire: A Plea for Marginality Francois Furstenberg Notes Selected Bibliography List of Contributors Index
Nicolas Barreyre is Associate Professor in American History at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris and author of The Politics of Economic Crises: The Panic of 1873, the End of Reconstruction, and the Realignment of American Politics (2011). Michael Heale is Emeritus Professor of American History at Lancaster University, a member of the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford, and author of Contemporary America: Power, Dependency and Globalization since 1980 (2011). Stephen Tuck is University Lecturer in American History at the University of Oxford and author of We Ain't What We Ought to Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama (2010). Cecile Vidal is Associate Professor of History at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS), director of the Center for North American Studies, and editor of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World (2013).
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