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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463979303321

Titolo

Historians across borders : writing American history in a global age / / edited by Nicolas Barreyre [and three others] ; contributors Natsuka Aruga [and twenty nine others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-520-95805-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BarreyreNicolas

ArugaNatsuka

Disciplina

973.072

Soggetti

Historiography - Europe

Electronic books.

United States Historiography

United States History Study and teaching Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface: Location and History -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Watersheds in Time and Place: Writing American History in Europe -- 2. Using the American Past for the Present: European Historians and the Relevance of Writing American History -- 3. Institutions, Careers, and the Many Paths of U.S. History in Europe -- 4. Straddling Intellectual Worlds: Positionality and the Writing of American History -- 5. Writing American History from Europe: The Elusive Substance of the Comparative Approach -- 6. American Foreign Relations in European Perspectives: Geopolitics and the Writing of History -- 7. Location and the Conceptualization of Historical Frameworks: Early American History and Its Multiple Reconfigurations in the United States and in Europe -- 8. Positionality, Ambidexterity, and Global Frames -- 9. Reflections from Russia -- 10. Doing U.S. History in Australia: A Comparative Perspective -- 11. Viewing American History from Japan: The Potential of Comparison -- 12. Not Quite at Home: Writing American History in Denmark -- 13. American History in the Shadow of Empire: A Plea for Marginality -- Notes --



Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this stimulating and highly original study of the writing of American history, twenty-four scholars from eleven European countries explore the impact of writing history from abroad. Six distinguished scholars from around the world add their commentaries. Arguing that historical writing is conditioned, crucially, by the place from which it is written, this volume identifies the formative impact of a wide variety of institutional and cultural factors that are commonly overlooked. Examining how American history is written from Europe, the contributors shed light on how history is written in the United States and, indeed, on the way history is written anywhere. The innovative perspectives included in Historians across Borders are designed to reinvigorate American historiography as the rise of global and transnational history is creating a critical need to understand the impact of place on the writing and teaching of history. This book is designed for students in historiography, global and transnational history, and related courses in the United States and abroad, for US historians, and for anyone interested in how historians work.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140477003321

Autore

Zalambani Maria

Titolo

Censura, istituzioni e politica letteraria in URSS, 1964-1985 / / Maria Zalambani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze, : Firenze University Press, 2009

ISBN

9788864530802

8864530800

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

284 p

Collana

Biblioteca di Studi slavistici ; ; 10

Disciplina

891

Soggetti

Censorship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

M. Zalambani teaches at the Univ. of Bologna.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Soviet society has always been characterised by a marked institutional



censorship which, in the face of the power of the written word, has set in motion a series of highly repressive institutions. However, censorship does not necessarily exert its power through forms of coercion; there are also approaches that are implemented through a complex network of cultural institutions that can "produce" society, expunging concepts and attitudes that are a threat to the system and at the same time masterminding a series of organisms designed to forge orthodox behaviour and mindframes, to the extent that the role of the external censor often becomes almost superfluous, being replaced by the "censor of the soul". This book seeks to bring to the fore this second type of censorship, albeit without neglecting the complex repressive machinery set in motion by Soviet power. Press Review: Il Giornale, L'INTERVISTA - MARIA ZALAMBANI: «Così Breznev censurò persino Sartre» a cura di Giuseppe Ghini, 19/04/2010.