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Zusatztext 'One of the most significant scholarly projects of the last decade has involved breaking out of the nation-state framework in order to examine influential transnational circuits and interconnections. Akira Iriye and Pierre-Yves Saunier have now edited an indispensable resource for this new transnational history. By offering a broad array of topics and drawing upon the expertise of over three hundred of the world's leading scholars, these skillful editors have produced a freshly conceived and authoritative volume that will appeal to libraries and historians worldwide' -Professor Emily S Rosenberg, Department of History, University of California, Irvine, USA 'With articles written by experts from 25 countries and from six continents this dictionary is an impressive and inspiring example of transnational history as a transnational practice. The Editors have done a great job to give this new field in historiography a convincing intellectual status and to open the mindof the next generation to the idea of global entanglements and cultural transfers as the very basis of modernity' -Professor Matthias Middell, University of Leipzig, Germany '...[an] enterprising volume...There are numerous encyclopedic guides to world history but all are organised along national lines. I do not know of any other reference work which attempts to cover recent world history from a transnational perspective...All university libraries catering for academic work in any aspect of modern history, as well as in international relations, politics, law, etc. should seriously consider buying this book.' - Reference Reviews '...a remarkable feat of transnational academia...authoritative, accessible, and highly readable...an important new resource, strongly recommended for libraries catering to students and scholars at all levels.' - Journal of Global History Informationen zum Autor Associate EditorsJane CarruthersUniversity Of South Africa, South AfricaDonna GabacciaUniversity Of Minnesota, USARana Mitter,University Of Oxford, UKMariano PlotkinInstituto De Desarrollo Económico Y Social, ArgentinaPatrick VerleyUniversity of Geneva, Switzerland Notable Contributors Daniel Rodgers Princeton University, USA Prasenjit Duara University of Chicago, USA Thomas Bender New York University USA Bruce Mazlish Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Raymond Grew University of Michigan, USA Charles Maier Harvard University, USA Matthew Connelly Columbia University, USA Dominic Sachsenmaier Duke University, USA Cemil Aydin University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Christophe Charle Ecole Normale Superiuere, France Johan Heilbron Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France Giovani Federico University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Gyorgy Petery Norwegian University of Science andTechnology, Norway Volker Berghahn Columiba University, USA Jean Yves Mollier Universite de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France Johan Schot Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Stephen Ward Oxford Brooks University, UK Leo Lucassen University of Leiden, The Netherlands Dirk Hoerder Arizona State University, USA Patrick Manning University of Pittsburgh, USA Ellen Dubois Univesity of California Los Angeles, USA Jonathan Benthall University College London, UK Jane Guyer Johns Hopkins University, USA Daya Thussu University of Westminster, USA Christopher Balme Institut fur Theatrewissenschaft, Germany Youssef Cassis University of Geneva, Switzerland Klappentext Written and edited by many of the world's foremost scholars of transnational history, this Dictionary challenges readers to look at the contemporary world in a new light. Contains over 400 entries on transnational subjects such as food, migration and religion, as well as traditional topics such as nationalism and war. Zusammenfassung Written...
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Editorial board List of Contributors Introduction Acknowledgements Introductory notes for the reader Tree Diagrams Entries A- Z Index visit www.transnationalhistory.com
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'One of the most significant scholarly projects of the last decade has involved breaking out of the nation-state framework in order to examine influential transnational circuits and interconnections. Akira Iriye and Pierre-Yves Saunier have now edited an indispensable resource for this new transnational history. By offering a broad array of topics and drawing upon the expertise of over three hundred of the world's leading scholars, these skillful editors have produced a freshly conceived and authoritative volume that will appeal to libraries and historians worldwide'
-Professor Emily S Rosenberg, Department of History, University of California, Irvine, USA
'With articles written by experts from 25 countries and from six continents this dictionary is an impressive and inspiring example of transnational history as a transnational practice. The Editors have done a great job to give this new field in historiography a convincing intellectual status and to open the mindof the next generation to the idea of global entanglements and cultural transfers as the very basis of modernity'
-Professor Matthias Middell, University of Leipzig, Germany
'...[an] enterprising volume...There are numerous encyclopedic guides to world history but all are organised along national lines. I do not know of any other reference work which attempts to cover recent world history from a transnational perspective...All university libraries catering for academic work in any aspect of modern history, as well as in international relations, politics, law, etc. should seriously consider buying this book.' - Reference Reviews
'...a remarkable feat of transnational academia...authoritative, accessible, and highly readable...an important new resource,
strongly recommended for libraries catering to students and scholars at all levels.' - Journal of Global History
