Brooke L Blower

The Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts After the Transnational Turn Brooke L Blower

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Introductionby Brooke L. Blower and Mark Philip Bradley1. Watson and the Sharkby Brian DeLay2. "Oh! Susanna"by Brian Rouleau3. "Mary Lyon, Massachusetts"by Mary A. Renda4. William Howard Taft's Drawersby Andrew J. Rotter5. Josephine Baker's Banana Skirtby Matthew Pratt Guterl6. V-J Day, 1945, Times Squareby Brooke L. Blower7. The Kinsey Reportsby Naoko Shibusawa8. The Quiet Americanby Fredrik Logevall9. That Touch of Minkby Nick Cullather10. The Immigration Reform Act of 1965by Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof11. President Jimmy Carter s Inaugural Addressby Mark Philip BradleyConclusionby Daniel T. RodgersNotesContributorsIndex"Review Quotes:"The Familiar Made Strange arises from a most original idea: take familiar texts we accept as self-evidently 'American' and expose their complex transnational histories, thus obliging the reader to view them with new eyes. The result is thought-provoking, lively, and quite simply a pleasure to read." Marilyn Young, New York University, author of The Vietnam Wars, 1945 1990"Review Quotes:"In this smart, exuberant, and often provocative set of essays, a renowned group of historians set themselves the task of making transnationalism work. I was struck by how often a transnational lens also required truly interdisciplinary approaches artistic analysis, economics, cultural history, and international affairs are necessarily cohabiting here. For scholars, students, and teachers, this offers a capacious sense of possibility. It is a priceless collection." Melani McAlister, author of Epic Encounters"Review Quotes:"The Familiar Made Strange, a highly innovative book, focuses on specific icons and artifacts to illustrate themes and methodologies in transnational history. Combining strong writing and fascinating topics, this book will delight scholars, general readers, and students." Emily S. Rosenberg, coeditor of Body and Nation"Publisher Marketing: 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 DeLay, 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"

Contributor Bio:  Blower, Brooke L 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. Contributor Bio:  Bradley, Mark Philip 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.