Yearbook of Transnational History - Volume 1General Description

The Yearbook of Transnational History is a peer-reviewed volume published annually that is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history to an international audience.

Undertaking transnational history means breaking free from national paradigms. The concept of transnational history is built upon the premise that historical processes, their causes, and their consequences are not contained within nations. The transnational approach attempts to recover history as a global experience and as a universal project. It is based on the realization that humans have always lived in an interconnected world. Instead of researching and writing the history of particular phenomena within the confines of any given nation state, the paradigm of transnational history encourages historians to follow trends, events, and people in all directions that they went. Transnational history is, thus, focused on the circulation of notions, images, things, living beings, capital, and practices across various cultures and societies around the globe and the creation/disruption of relations and spaces that shape the perception and reality of individuals.

This annual publication is open to contributions that fit this agenda. Articles considered for inclusion will follow human and non-human historical protagonists in various geographic settings and recreate the transnational configurations that have been obscured by the national history paradigm. We welcome articles from both professionals and advanced PhD students that are based upon original research on a broad range in both spatial and topical terms from the modern era (i.e. eighteenth to the twentieth century).

About the Editor

Thomas Adam is professor of transnational history at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of Intercultural Transfers and the Making of the Modern World, 1800-2000, Transnational Philanthropy: The Mond Family’s Support for Public Institutions in Western Europe from 1890 to 1938, and Buying Respectability: Philanthropy and Urban Society in Transnational Perspective, 1840s to1930s.

Editorial Board

Sven Beckert Harvard University, Boston, USA
Tobias BrinkmannPenn State University, Philadelphia, USA
Daniela CagliotiUniversita di Napoli, Naples, Italy
Pilar GonzalezUniversité Paris I, Paris, France
Frank Jacob, Nord University, Norway
Paul KerryBrigham Young University, Provo, USA
Axel KornerUniversity College London, London, Great Britain
Alan LessoffIllinois State University, Normal, USA
Gabriele LingelbachChristian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany
Kris K. Manjapra,  Tufts University, Medford, USA
Kiran Klaus PatelUniversity of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Pierre-Yves SaunierUniversité Laval, Quebec City, Canada
Axel SchaeferJohannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany
Ian Tyrrell University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Submissions

The Yearbook of Transnational History is inviting scholars to submit articles for its third volume to be published in spring 2020.

The Yearbook of Transnational History (YTH) is a newly established peer-reviewed annual journal published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press/Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. This annual is dedicated to publishing and disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history for an (maybe add interdisciplinary and diverse) international audience.

Contact us

Thomas Adam
Department of History
The University of Texas at Arlington
Box 19529
Arlington, TX, 76019-0529
USA

Email:  tjth@fdu.edu

Volume 1 – Table of Contents

Thomas Adam, “Transnational History: A Program for Research, Publishing, and Teaching”

:. Articles
Donna Gabaccia, “Thoughts on the Future of Transnational History”
Matthias Middell, “The Intercultural Transfer Paradigm in its Transnational and Transregional Setting”
Kristen D. Burton, “From British Export to French Expansion: How France Globalized Organized Soccer”
Debra Reddin van Tuyll, “Transnational History and Journalism: A Case Study of John Mitchel”
William Roka, “Building Luxurious Ocean Liners for the Traveling Transatlantic Elite in the Early Twentieth Century”
Giacomo Canepa, “The Transatlantic Transfer of Social Policies in the Context of UNRRA’s ‘Rehabilitation’ of Post-World-War-II Italy”
Alexander Golovlev, “Sounds of Music From Across the Sea: Musical Transnationality in Early Post-World-War II Austraia”
Amber N. Nickell, “Time to Show the Kremlin America’s Full House: The Committee for Human Rights in the Soviet Union, Rabbi Gedalyah Engel, and Their Refusenik Adoptees, 1977–1992”

:. Review Articles
Margrit Pernau, “A Field in Search of its Identity. Recent Introductions to Global History”
Daryl Leeworthy and Colin D. Howell, “Observing From the Border: Sport, Borderlands, and the Margins of the Transnational in the North Atlantic World”
Susanne Lachenicht, “The Summer Academy of Atlantic History (SAAH)”
Austin E. Loignon, “Decades Across the Sea: An Assessment of the Movements and Workshops of Transatlantic History at the University of Texas at Arlington in the Past Two Decades”