Transnationalism, Nationalism and Australian History [electronic resource] /
Clark, Anna.editor.
Rees, Anne.editor.
Simmonds, Alecia.editor.
In recent years History's 'national narrative' has been powerfully challenged by transnational and international debates. Using Australian history as a case study, this collection draws on leading contributions from academics and public intellectuals to explore the ways national identities still resonate in historical scholarship and reexamines key moments in Australian history, with a transnational lens, raising important questions about the unique context of Australia's national narrative. The book examines the tension between national and transnational perspectives, attempting to internationalise the often parochial nation-based narratives that characterise national history, such as the history wars or the glorification of the Anzac Legend, whilst bearing in mind the limits of transnational histories in a national setting. Moving from the local and personal to the global, encompassing comparative and international research and drawing on the experiences of researchers working across nations and communities, this collection brings together diverging national and transnational approaches and asks several critical research questions: What is transnational history? How do new transnational readings of the past challenge conventional national narratives and approaches? What are implications of transnational and international approaches on Australian history? What possibilities do they bring to the discipline? What are their limitations? And finally, how do we understand the nation in this transnational moment?
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Testing the Boundaries: Reflections on Transnationalism in Australian History -- Section I Crossing Borders: New Transnational Histories -- A Tale of Two Rivers: The Cooks River and the Los Angeles River in Transnational and Comparative Perspective -- Australia's Black History: The Politics of Comparison and Transnational Indigenous Activism in Commonwealth Settler States -- Rebel Handmaidens: Transpacific Histories and the Limits of Transnationalism -- Transnationalism and the Writing of Australian Women's History -- Section II National Histories in an Age of Transnationalism -- Is Australian History Over-determined by the Transnational Turn? -- Australia's 1980s in Transnational Perspective -- Subjects and Readers: National and Transnational Contexts -- Reading Postwar Reconstruction Through National and Transnational Lenses -- Section III Intimacy and Transnationalism: Reading Vernacular Histories -- Thinking Transnationally about Sexuality: Homosexuality in Australia or Australian Homosexualities? -- Family History and Transnational Historical Consciousness -- Intimate Jurisdictions: Reflections upon the Relationship Between Sentiment, Law and Empire.
In recent years History's 'national narrative' has been powerfully challenged by transnational and international debates. Using Australian history as a case study, this collection draws on leading contributions from academics and public intellectuals to explore the ways national identities still resonate in historical scholarship and reexamines key moments in Australian history, with a transnational lens, raising important questions about the unique context of Australia's national narrative. The book examines the tension between national and transnational perspectives, attempting to internationalise the often parochial nation-based narratives that characterise national history, such as the history wars or the glorification of the Anzac Legend, whilst bearing in mind the limits of transnational histories in a national setting. Moving from the local and personal to the global, encompassing comparative and international research and drawing on the experiences of researchers working across nations and communities, this collection brings together diverging national and transnational approaches and asks several critical research questions: What is transnational history? How do new transnational readings of the past challenge conventional national narratives and approaches? What are implications of transnational and international approaches on Australian history? What possibilities do they bring to the discipline? What are their limitations? And finally, how do we understand the nation in this transnational moment?
World history.
International relations.
Ethnology-Asia.
Islands of the Pacific-History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
International Relations.
Asian Culture.
Australasian History.