Going transnational? News from down under: Transnational History Symposium, Canberra, Australian National University, September 2004

In: Historical social research: HSR-Retrospective (HSR-Retro) = Historische Sozialforschung, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 118-131

Abstract

Building from the papers and discussions presented
at the Transnational History Symposium (Canberra,
Australian National University, September 2004), this article
offers a view into some of the current developments and
discussions that take place while historians are grapping
with the 'transnational take'. In a discipline that has been
closely connected with the birth of the nation states, this developing
attention for the flows, circulation and connection
across borders is not without its risks, pitfalls and difficulties.
But there is a promising bunch of studies and interests
that are developing within the historical community, all
suggesting that they can contribute to the contextualisation
and understanding of global networks.