Introduction. Historians, the Nation, and the Plenitude of Narratives

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE vii
4. Introduction. Historians, the Nation, and the Plenitude of Narratives 1
5. PART I. HISTORICIZING THE NATION
6. 1. Transnationalism and the Challenge to National Histories 25
7. 2. Internationalizing International History 47
8. 3. Where in the World Is America? The History of the United States in the Global Age 63
9. PART II. New Historical Geographies and Temporalities
10. 4. International at the Creation: Early Modern American History 103
11. 5. How the West Was One: The African Diaspora and the Re-Mapping of U.S. History 123
12. 6. Time and Revolution in African America: Temporality and the History of Atlantic Slavery 148
13. 7. Beyond the View from Euro-America: Environment, Settler Societies, and the Internationalization of American History 168
14. PART III. Opening the Frame
15. 8. From Euro- and Afro-Atlantic to Pacific Migration System: A Comparative Migration Approach to North American History 195
16. 9. Framing U.S. History: Democracy, Nationalism, and Socialism 236
17. 10. An Age of Social Politics 250
18. 11. The Age of Global Power 274
19. 12. American Empire and Cultural Imperialism: A View from the Receiving End 295
20. PART IV. The Constraints of Practice
21. 13. Do American Historical Narratives Travel? 317
22. 14. The Modernity of America and the Practice of Scholarship 343
23. 15. The Exhaustion of Enclosures: A Critique of Internationalization 367
24. 16. The Historian’s Use of the United States and Vice Versa 381
25. APPENDIX. Participants in the La Pietra Conferences, 1997–2000 397
26. CONTRIBUTORS 401
27. INDEX 405