| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.1

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Book Review

Methods/Theory

Thomas Bender, editor. Rethinking American History in a Global Age. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 427. Cloth $55.00, paper $22.50.

From 1997 to 2000, seventy-eight scholars took part in a series of four conferences at New York University's Villa La Pietra in Florence, Italy. Sponsored jointly by NYU and the Organization of American Historians, the Project on Internationalizing the Study of American History sought to promote ways of situating American history in a broader—global—perspective. The sixteen essays in the book under review provide, in the words of editor and project director Thomas Bender, "a selection that collectively and coherently represents the work of the project" (p. viii). Five of the volume's eighteen authors are associated with NYU, seven are located elsewhere in the United States, and six hold appointments at foreign universities. 1

Although all the authors share the goal of "deprovincializing the narrative of American history" (p. 5), they differ widely in their approach to this goal, and their essays vary in quality and interest as well. Encompassing theoretical pieces on how to escape from over reliance on a national framework for American history, specific reinterpretations of American history in broadened context, and examinations of some of the practical difficulties facing those seeking to promote the internationalizing of American history, these essays give the reader a great deal to ponder. Unfortunately, this interesting information is not always easy to assimilate: although some of the essays are clear and to the point, several display prose that is so dense, jargon-laden, or abstract that untangling it requires multiple readings. . . .

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