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General Introduction: What is America and the World?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2021

By
Mark Philip Bradley
Edited by
David C. Engerman ,
Max Paul Friedman  and
Melani McAlister
David C. Engerman
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
Max Paul Friedman
Affiliation:
American University, Washington DC
Melani McAlister
Affiliation:
George Washington University, Washington DC
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The Cambridge History of America and the World (CHAW) offers a far-reaching and novel account of American engagement in the world from 1500 to the present day. CHAW takes as its interpretive starting point a deceptively simple insight: adopting frameworks that cut across rather than stop at the nation’s borders could upend established stories and generate new interpretive possibilities. What might happen, as nineteenth-century American historian Thomas Bender asked in a seminal 2002 essay, if historians followed “the movement of people, capital, things, and knowledge” across borders in ways that ignored artificial and state-defined boundaries? An outpouring of work over the last two decades has followed this transnational turn in US history to deprovincialize how we understand the American past. It has now produced a fundamentally new history of America and the world.

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The Cambridge History of America and the World , pp. 1 - 7
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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