New Perspectives in Transatlantic Studies: : Melanie Perrault: University Press of America

New Perspectives in Transatlantic Studies

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In the first edition of Transatlantic Studies, Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson and Will Kaufman argued that a new field of studies was emerging from the separate fields of insular area studies such as American Studies, European Studies, and African Studies. Now that Transatlantic Studies is a recognized area of inquiry in its own right, Macpherson and Kaufman extend their analysis of it. New Perspectives in Transatlantic Studies aims to extend the definition of Transatlantic Studies and explore the implications of such a definition by supplying a critical perspective, which links the diverse constituents of this interdisciplinary field. Therefore, it engages with issues of "the contact zone" in relation to globalization, migration, and the law; examines transatlantic artistic and cultural representation; and explores the economic, philosophic, and political implications of the transatlantic area.

Chapter 1 Acknowledgements
Chapter 2 Introduction: Transatlantic Studies-Conceptual Challenges
Chapter 3 Oceans Apart? Setting the Transatlantic Context:
Chapter 4 Waterways in the Atlantic World: Contact & Cultural Negotiations Across a Liquid Landscape
Chapter 5 The Economy of the Marvelous: Columbus's Transatlantic Tokens of Exchange
Chapter 6 End-Time & Exorcisms in England: Witch-Hunting & Salvation in the 17th Century
Chapter 7 Racial Encounters in the Contact Zone:
Chapter 8 Mulattos Accused of Witchcraft & Sorcery in Late Colonial New Spain
Chapter 9 A Taste for Flesh: British Slavery, Sentiment & the Epistemology of Race & Domination
Chapter 10 Spirits of Earth & Sky: The Dynamics of European Encounters with Great Plains Aboriginal Groups
Chapter 11 Transatlantic Artistic Exchanges:
Chapter 12 Transatlantic Romanticism: The Case of the Painter-Poet, Thomas Cole
Chapter 13 European Modernity-Awareness & Transatlantic Intertextuality: Poe's Significance for Baudelaire, Benjamin, & Foucault
Chapter 14 19th Century American Women Writers' European Connections: The Case of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Chapter 15 The Hegemonic Body: Politics of a Black Peruvian Dance
Chapter 16 Transatlantic Economies:
Chapter 17 Exporting the Industrial Revolution: The Migration of Cornish Mining Technology to Latin America in the Early 19th Century
Chapter 18 George W. Ball, Jean Monnet, & the Founding of the European Coal & Steel Community (1950-51): The Importance of Transatlantic Relations
Chapter 19 Transatlantic Perspectives on the Euro & the Dollar: Dollarization & Other Issues
Chapter 20 Politics, Philosophy, & Security: Revisiting International Relations
Chapter 21 Atlantic Corridors: F.C.S. Schiller, Papini, & the "Americanization" of Pragmatism
Chapter 22 Old Orders, New Orders & Third Ways: Trends in Anglo-American Party Politics
Chapter 23 Above the Law? Transatlantic Perspectives on the Development of the International Criminal Court
Chapter 24 The Trauma of Nuclear Pearl Harbor: Transatlantic Relations, Fortress America & the Loss of Nuclear Invulnerability
Chapter 25 The European Union & Defense: Autonomy Within the Bounds of Transatlantic Solidarity
Chapter 26 Selected Bibliography
Chapter 27 Index
Chapter 28 About the Contributors

Product details

Published	Feb 07 2002
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	292
ISBN	9780761821649
Imprint	University Press of America
Dimensions	218 x 136 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

...provides the open-minded reader with a thought-provoking, very readable, at times even fascinating, collection of essays.

Stewart R. Ross, Institute of International Relations, Prague, Journal of International Relations and Development
All of the essays in this collection are well-researched and well-argued...[this collection] well reflects both the progress scholars have made in creating a new field of study with an ocean basin, the Atlantic, as its centre, rather than a continent or nation-state, but also the challenges that lie ahead in conceptualising that field, 'Transatlantic Studies,' in a way that truly distinguishes methodologically and topically from the older area studies programmes.

Gayle K. Brunelle, California State University, Fullerton, Itinerario
All of the essays in this collection are well-researched and well-argued...[this collection] well reflects both the progress scholars have made in creating a new field of study with an ocean basin, the Atlantic, as its centre, rather than a continent or nation-state, but also the challenges that lie ahead in conceptualising that field, 'Transatlantic Studies,' in a way that truly distinguishes methodologically and topically from the older area studies programmes.

Gayle K. Brunelle, California State University, Fullerton, Itinerario
...provides the open-minded reader with a thought-provoking, very readable, at times even fascinating, collection of essays.

Stewart R. Ross, Institute of International Relations, Prague, Journal of International Relations and Development