Moving Beyond National Boundaries

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1. A few notable examples include Linda Colley, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History (Pantheon, 2007); Randy Sparks, The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth Century Atlantic Odyssey (Harvard University Press, 2004); Rebecca J. Scott and Jean Hebrard, Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2012); James H. Sweet, Domingo Alvares, African History and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World (University of North Carolina Press, 2011); Carol Berkin, Wondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte (Knops, 2014).2. For another recent example, see Desley Deacon, Angela Woollacott and Penny Russell, eds., Transnational Lives: Biographies of Global Modernity, 1700-Present (Palgrave McMillan, 2010).3. For a recent account of some of the more well-known American literature about Europe, including some travel literature, see Jennifer Clark, The American Idea of England, 1776–1840: Transatlantic Writing (Ashgate, 2013).4. See especially Sam W. Haynes, Unfinished Revolution: The Early American Republic in a British World (University of Virginia Press, 2010) and Kariann Yokota, Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation (Oxford University Press, 2011)

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