Format:
1 Online-Ressource (291 pages)
ISBN:
9781920942458
Content:
Connected Worlds -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- Defining transnational history -- Transnational historiography -- Gaining new insights: the transnational history of black political movements -- The dangers of transnational history -- Australian perspectives -- This volume -- Different Modes of Transnational History -- 2. Putting the nation in its place?: world history and C. A. Bayly's The Birth of the Modern World -- 3. Paths not yet taken, voices not yet heard: rethinking Atlantic history -- 4. Postcolonial histories and Catherine Hall's Civilising Subjects -- Migration and Other Voyages -- 5. Steal a handkerchief, see the world: the trans-oceanic voyaging of Thomas Limpus -- Thomas Limpus's first convict voyage -- The second voyage -- The third voyage: the First Fleet -- 6. Revolution and respectability: Chinese Masons in Australian history -- Introduction -- History and legend -- Political history of the Masonic network -- Urbanisation, consolidation, and depoliticisation -- In Memoriam -- 7. 'Innocents abroad' and 'prohibited immigrants': Australians in India and Indians in Australia 1890-1910 -- 8. Postwar British emigrants and the 'transnational moment': exemplars of a 'mobility of modernity'? -- Modernity, Film and Romance -- 9. 'Films as foreign offices': transnationalism at Paramount in the twenties and early thirties -- 10. Modern nomads and national film history: the multi-continental career of J. D. Williams -- 11. The Americanisation of romantic love in Australia -- The culture of romantic love in the United States -- The culture of romantic love in nineteenth-century Australia -- The romanticisation of consumption in Australia -- World War II and gendered romantic consumption -- Conclusion -- Transnational Racial Politics
Content:
12. Transcultural/transnational interaction and influences on Aboriginal Australia -- Aboriginal Australians and African worldwide politics -- Aboriginal contacts with non-Europeans -- Aboriginal Australians and international travel -- 13. From Mississippi to Melbourne via Natal: the invention of the literacy test as a technology of racial exclusion -- 'This new religion of whiteness' -- The Mississippi precedent: the education test of 1890 -- A literacy test to restrict immigration to the United States -- Founded on the American Act: Natal introduces immigration restriction -- The White Australia policy -- Conclusion -- Postcolonial Transnationalism -- 14. Islam, Europe and Indian nationalism: towards a postcolonial transnationalism -- A derivative discourse? -- Arabic into Latin -- Mughal to British -- The Tuhfat -- The English writings -- Polar history writing -- Conclusion
Additional Edition:
9781920942441
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Curthoys, Ann Connected Worlds : History in Transnational Perspective Canberra : ANU Press,c2006 9781920942441
Language:
English
