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The Atlantic community seems to be in crisis and it is time to critically rethink past narratives and traditional frameworks of transatlantic relations. Exploring the historiography and legacies of the Atlantic World, contributors open up new, transnational, and global perspectives, helping us to better understand the TransAtlantic today.
List of contents
Introduction - Susanne Lachenicht, Charlotte A. Lerg, and Michael Kimmage
1 An Interview with Bernard Bailyn
2 'Once more the storm is Howling': On the political Passions in Europe and America and their implications for Transatlantic History - Charles S. Maier
3 Atlantic History: The evolution of a subject - Nicholas Canny
4 Atlantic Studies Today - Philip D. Morgan
5 The transnational transatlantic: Private organizations and governmentality - Giles Scott-Smith
6 Contemporary history as critical perspective: Transatlantic debates about the Nazi past - Konrad H. Jarausch
7 Toward a new diplomatic history of transatlantic relations: America, Europe, and the crises of the 1970s - Ariane Leendertz
8 Transatlantic Catholicism and the making of the 'Christian West' - Giuliana Chamedes
9 From denationalizing history to decanonizing teaching history: A program for the teaching of history in the Post-National Era - Thomas Adam
Index
About the author
Charlotte A. Lerg is Assistant Professor in American Cultural History and Transatlantic Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich
Susanne Lachenicht is Professor and Chair of Early Modern History at University of Bayreuth, Bavaria
Michael Kimmage is Professor of History at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC