Warmly recommended to both skeptics and avid practitioners of transnational American Studies who will inevitably catch themselves pondering which other American icons and artifacts might lend themselves for a rereading in a transnational framework.
Amerikastudien
In this smart, exuberant, and often provocative set of essays, a renowned group of historians set themselves the task of making ... Read moretransnationalism work. I was struck by how often a transnational lens also required truly interdisciplinary approaches-artistic analysis, economics, cultural history, and international affairs are necessarily cohabiting here. For scholars, students, and teachers, this offers a capacious sense of possibility. It is a priceless collection.
Melani McAlister, author of Epic Encounters The Familiar Made Strange arises from a most original idea: take familiar texts we accept as self-evidently 'American' and expose their complex transnational histories, thus obliging the reader to view them with new eyes. The result is thought-provoking, lively, and quite simply a pleasure to read.
Marilyn Young, New York University, author of The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990 Reading The Familiar Made Strange feels like taking a walk through a well-signposted museum with halls that twist through different eras, types of archives and source material, and analytic approaches.... Students and scholars alike will be inspired by its lively prose, experimental tone, and frequent reminder that there remain 'different paths to blaze and more icons to reimagine from other angles and scales' (p. 8).
Shanon Fitzpatrick
Journal of American History
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