The Familiar Made Strange : : American Icons and Artifacts after the Transnational Turn / / ed. by Brooke L. Blower, Mark Philip Bradley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Blower, Brooke L.,; Bradley, Mark Philip,; Cullather, Nick,; DeLay, Brian,; Hoffnung-Garskof, Jesse,; Logevall, Fredrik,; Pratt Guterl, Matthew,; Renda, Mary A.,; Rodgers, Daniel T.,; Rotter, Andrew J.,; Rouleau, Brian,; Shibusawa, Naoko,
• HerausgeberIn: Blower, Brooke L.,; Bradley, Mark Philip,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 22 halftones, 1 table, 1 chart

In The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut across rather than stop at the nation’s borders to model new interpretive approaches to studying United States history. These leading practitioners of the "transnational turn" pause to consider such famous icons as John Singleton Copley’s painting Watson and the Shark, Alfred Eisenstaedt’s photograph V-J Day, 1945, Times Square, and Alfred Kinsey’s reports on sexual behavior, as well as more surprising but revealing artifacts like Josephine Baker’s banana skirt and William Howard Taft’s underpants. Together, they present a road map to the varying scales, angles and methods of transnational analysis that shed light on American politics, empire, gender, and the operation of power in everyday life.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Watson and the Shark -- 2. “Oh! Susanna” -- 3. “Mary Lyon, Massachusetts” -- 4. William Howard Taft’s Drawers -- 5. Josephine Baker’s Banana Skirt -- 6. V-J Day, 1945, Times Square -- 7. The Kinsey Reports -- 8. The Quiet American -- 9. That Touch of Mink -- 10. The Immigration Reform Act of 1965 -- 11. President Jimmy Carter’s Inaugural Address -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index