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Rethinking American History in a Global Age (review)

Rethinking American History in a Global Age (review) journal of world history, september 2004 Rethinking American History in a Global Age. Edited by thomas bender. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 427 + ix pp. $55.00 (hardcover); $22.50 (paper). In the opening sentence of their contribution to this collected volume, Charles Bright and Michael Geyer ask, "What could be more American than a move to reposition U.S.-American history in the path of world history -- to frame a new historical imagination appropriate for a transnational polity in a global age?" (p. 63). It is indeed the case that historians in the United States have been leading practitioners of world history. But I don't think that this is what Bright and Geyer had in mind. In this collection of sixteen essays, I found only three references to the work of world historians, and only two authors (neither based in the United States) referred to more than one work in a non-English language. The "global" in this new historical imagination refers less to the expansion of historical methods and empirical knowledge than to the imagination of a conceptual space from which to reinterpret familiar material. Many of the chapters revolve around two questions: to what extent should we http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of World History University of Hawai'I Press

Rethinking American History in a Global Age (review)

McKeown, Adam, Ph.D
Journal of World History , Volume 15 (3) – Nov 10, 2004
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journal of world history, september 2004 Rethinking American History in a Global Age. Edited by thomas bender. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 427 + ix pp. $55.00 (hardcover); $22.50 (paper). In the opening sentence of their contribution to this collected volume, Charles Bright and Michael Geyer ask, "What could be more American than a move to reposition U.S.-American history in the path of world history -- to frame a new historical imagination appropriate for a transnational polity in a global age?" (p. 63). It is indeed the case that historians in the United States have been leading practitioners of world history. But I don't think that this is what Bright and Geyer had in mind. In this collection of sixteen essays, I found only three references to the work of world historians, and only two authors (neither based in the United States) referred to more than one work in a non-English language. The "global" in this new historical imagination refers less to the expansion of historical methods and empirical knowledge than to the imagination of a conceptual space from which to reinterpret familiar material. Many of the chapters revolve around two questions: to what extent should we

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