Transnational Lives Biographies of Global Modernity, 1700-present [Hardcover]

The transnationalism of ordinary lives threatens the stability of national identity and unsettles the framework of national histories and biography. This book takes mobility, not nation, as its frame, and captures a rich array of?lives,?from the elite to the subaltern, that have crossed national, racial and cartographic boundaries.List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; D.Deacon , P.Russell & A.Woollacott PART I: WRITING LIVES TRANSNATIONALLY Issues and Methods A Story with an Argument: Writing the Transnational Life of a Sea Captain's Wife; M.Hodes Peripheral Visions: Heterography and Writing the Transnational Life of Sara Baartman; P.Scully Boundaries Cross Bodies Writing the Entrapped Nations of Indigenous Australia into Being; P.van Toorn Dancing With Shadows: Biography and the Making and Remaking of the Atlantic World; M.McDonnell PART II: OPPORTUNITIES Fantasies Opportunists and Impostors in the British Imperial World: The Tale of John Dow, Convict, and Edward, Viscount Lascelles; K.McKenzie Imperial Melodies: Globalizing the Lives of Cliff Richard and Engelbert Humperdinck; A.Carton Colonial Origins and Audience Collusion: The Merle Oberon Story in 1930s Australia; A.Woollacott Livelihoods Herbert Hoover and the Transnational Lives of Engineers; C.Pursell Manyat's 'Sole Delight': Travelling Knowledge in Western Australia's Southwest, 1830s; T.Shellam Connecting Lives: Elihu Yale and the British East India Company; R.Sudan Performances 'That will allow me to be my own woman': Margaret Anglin, Modernity, and Transnational Stages, 1890s-1940s; C.Morgan Made on Stage: Transnational Performance and the Worlds of Katherine Dunham from London to Dakar; P.M.Von Eschen PART III: QUESTS Subaltern Crossings: Looking for Liberty? The Transnational Lives of African-American Colonists to Liberia; B.Dorsey Resistance in Exile: Anthony Martin Fernando, Australian Aboriginal Activist, Internationalist, and Traveller in Europe; F.Paisley ls)