Provincializing the United States

Colonialism, Decolonization, and (Post)Colonial Governance in Transnational Perspective. Edited by Ursula Lehmkuhl, Eva Bischoff and Norbert Finzsch.

The transnational dimensions of North American history attract ever more attention in recent years. Inspired by twenty first-century experiences of global entanglements, an increasing number of scholars set out to explore the past anew. Methods and concepts of this re-orientated U.S. history, however, are still a matter of dispute. This volume submits a theoretically reflected and empirically saturated contribution to this debate. Its six contributions explore U.S. history from the margins, discussing topics as diverse as U.S. settler imperialism, technological and intellectual networks, Native American history, or African-American missionaries. They open up new, postcolonial perspectives on North American History, thereby provincializing the United States. Contents: Marc Priewe: Medicine and Colonization in Early New England. - Sabine N. Meyer: Negotiations of Settler Imperialism in American Popular Culture around the Turn of the Twentieth Century. - Hanno Scherer: "... the seeds of their extinction, already sown, must be matured." Native-American Genocide in the Old American Northwest, 1789-1829. - Robert Julio Decker: The Transnational Biopolitics of Whiteness and Immigration Restriction in the United States, 1894-1924. - Simone Müller-Pohl: Wiring the Pacific. North American Perspectives on a (De)colonial Project. - Elisabeth Engel: Provincializing Pan-Africanism. The African Methodist Episcopal Church and British West Africa. 237 Seiten mit 6 Abb., gebunden (American Studies - A Monograph Series; Vol. 248/Universitätsverlag Winter 2014)