Artifacts and Allegiances

Peggy Levitt is Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College and a Senior Research Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, where she codirects the Transnational Studies Initiative. In 2015, she is a Robert Schuman Fellow at the European University Institute. Her books include Books, Bodies, and Bronzes: Comparative Sites of Global Citizenship Creation, Religion on the Edge, God Needs No Passport, The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation, and The Transnational Villagers.

"An illuminating study that will be of interest to academics and museum professionals working in the field today." Publishers Weekly "Ambitious, well-written, and significant." Library Journal "Experimental - interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, self-critical, heterodox - approaches to art will have to be tried out if an audience for history, which is only as alive as our sense of investment in it, is not to be lost. (For a comparative look at some recent methods, I recommend Peggy Levitt's 'Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display,'" -- Holland Cotter New York Times "Artifacts and Allegiances is a compelling narrative whose insight and passion is well-supported by rich and rigorous sociological analysis, ultimately offering a welcome contribution to scholars across disciplines interested in museums, global politics, and the culture of place." Society

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Bog and the Beast: The View of the Nation and the World from Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Gothenburg 2. The Legislator and the Priest: Cosmopolitan Nationalism in Boston and New York 3. Arabia and the East: How Singapore and Doha Display the Nation and the World Conclusion Notes Bibliography List of Plates Image Credits Index