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 De Lay, 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
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction
by Brooke L. Blower and Mark Philip Bradley1. Watson and the Shark
by Brian De Lay2. ‘Oh! Susanna’
by Brian Rouleau3. ‘Mary Lyon, Massachusetts’
by Mary A. Renda4. William Howard Taft’s Drawers
by Andrew J. Rotter5. Josephine Baker’s Banana Skirt
by Matthew Pratt Guterl6. V-J Day, 1945, Times Square
by Brooke L. Blower7. The Kinsey Reports
by Naoko Shibusawa8. The Quiet American
by Fredrik Logevall9. That Touch of Mink
by Nick Cullather10. The Immigration Reform Act of 1965
by Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof11. President Jimmy Carter’s Inaugural Address
by Mark Philip Bradley Conclusion
by Daniel T. RodgersNotes
Contributors
Index
Circa l’autore
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.
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