5. Writing American History from Europe: The Elusive Substance of the Comparative Approach

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface: Location and History ix
4. Acknowledgments xix
5. PART ONE. HISTORIOGRAPHY
6. 1. Watersheds in Time and Place: Writing American History in Europe 3
7. PART TWO. STRUCTURES AND CONTEXT
8. 2. Using the American Past for the Present: European Historians and the Relevance of Writing American History 37
9. 3. Institutions, Careers, and the Many Paths of U.S. History in Europe 56
10. 4. Straddling Intellectual Worlds: Positionality and the Writing of American History 75
11. PART THREE. INTERNATIONALIZATION(S) OF U.S. HISTORY
12. 5. Writing American History from Europe: The Elusive Substance of the Comparative Approach 95
13. 6. American Foreign Relations in European Perspectives: Geopolitics and the Writing of History 118
14. 7. Location and the Conceptualization of Historical Frameworks: Early American History and Its Multiple Reconfigurations in the United States and in Europe 141
15. PART FOUR. PERSPECTIVES FROM ELSEWHERE
16. 8. Positionality, Ambidexterity, and Global Frames 165
17. 9. Reflections from Russia 174
18. 10. Doing U.S. History in Australia: A Comparative Perspective 181
19. 11. Viewing American History from Japan: The Potential of Comparison 189
20. 12. Not Quite at Home: Writing American History in Denmark 198
21. 13. American History in the Shadow of Empire: A Plea for Marginality 206
22. Notes 215
23. Selected Bibliography 291
24. Contributors 295
25. Index 299