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The Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts after the Transnational Turn
Brooke L. Blower (Ed.)
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Description for The Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts after the Transnational Turn
Hardback. Editor(s): Blower, Brooke L.; Bradley, Mark Philip. Num Pages: 224 pages, 22 black & white halftones, 1 tables, 1 charts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AV; HBAH; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
In The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut across rather than stop at the nation's borders to model new interpretive approaches to studying United States history. These leading practitioners of the transnational turn pause to consider such famous icons as John Singleton Copley's painting Watson and the Shark, Alfred Eisenstaedt's photograph V-J Day, 1945, Times Square, and Alfred Kinsey's reports on sexual behavior, as well as more surprising but revealing artifacts like Josephine Baker's banana skirt and William Howard Taft's underpants. Together, they present a road map to the varying scales, angles and methods of transnational analysis that shed light on American politics, empire, gender, and the operation of power in everyday life.Contributors: Brooke L. Blower, Boston University; Mark Philip Bradley, University of Chicago; Nick Cullather, Indiana University; Brian DeLay, University of California-Berkeley; Matthew Pratt Guterl, Brown University; Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University; Mary A. Renda, Mount Holyoke College; Daniel T. Rodgers, Princeton University; Andrew J. Rotter, Colgate University; Brian Rouleau, Texas A&M University; Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
453g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801452499
SKU
V9780801452499
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About Brooke L. Blower (Ed.)
Brooke L. Blower is Associate Professor of History at Boston University. She is the author of Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture between the World Wars. Mark Philip Bradley is Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Vietnam at War and Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950 and coeditor of Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars: Transnational and International Perspectives and Truth Claims: Representations and Human Rights.
Reviews for The Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts after the Transnational Turn
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 transnationalism 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
Amerikastudien
In this smart, exuberant, and often provocative set of essays, a renowned group of historians set themselves the task of making transnationalism 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