Writing Transnational History

Fiona Paisley is Professor of History at Griffith University, Australia. She is the author of The Lone Protestor: AM Fernando in Australia and London (2012), Glamour in the Pacific: Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women's Pan-Pacific (2009) and Across the World with the Johnsons: Visual Culture and American Empire in the Twentieth Century, co-authored with Prue Ahrens and Lamont Lindstrom (2013).Pamela Scully is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Professor of African Studies, and Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at Emory University, USA. She is the author of Liberating the Family?: Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823-1853 (1997), the co-editor of Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World (2005), with Diana Paton and co-author of Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography (2009) with Clifton Crais. Her most recent book is Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (2016).

The stakes of doing critical transnational histories have arguably never been greater. In this highly readable and teachable volume, Fiona Paisley and Pamela Scully assemble a host of paradigms and best practices drawn from recent scholarship on anglophone imperial history and colonial settler studies. Their emphasis on gender and geopolitics, mobility and subaltern lives, and the multiple worlds cross-hatched by vertical and horizontal forces distinguishes their approach and guarantees a wide range of interlocutors for years to come.

• Introduction1. Whiteness and Colonialism in the Pacific2. Unfree Circuits in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans3. Living the Transnational4. Imperial Productions of Knowledge and Power5. Internationalism and CosmopolitanismConclusion: From The Transnational to the TranslocalBibliographyIndex