{"product_id":"the-familiar-made-strange-9780801479113","title":"The Familiar Made Strange","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e The Familiar Made Strange\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eWatson and the Shark\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading \u003ci\u003eThe Familiar Made Strange\u003c\/i\u003e feels like taking a walk through a well-signposted museum with halls that twist through different eras, types of archives and source material, and analytic approaches.... Students and scholars alike will be inspired by its lively prose, experimental tone, and frequent reminder that there remain 'different paths to blaze and more icons to reimagine from other angles and scales' (p. 8).\u003c\/p\u003e -- Shanon Fitzpatrick * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWarmly recommended to both skeptics and avid practitioners of transnational American Studies who will inevitably catch themselves pondering which other American icons and artifacts might lend themselves for a rereading in a transnational framework.\u003c\/p\u003e * Amerikastudien *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e by Brooke L. Blower and Mark Philip Bradley1. \u003ci\u003eWatson and the Shark\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e by Brian DeLay2. \"Oh! Susanna\"\u003cbr\u003e by Brian Rouleau3. \"Mary Lyon, Massachusetts\"\u003cbr\u003e by Mary A. Renda4. William Howard Taft's Drawers\u003cbr\u003e by Andrew J. Rotter5. Josephine Baker's Banana Skirt\u003cbr\u003e by Matthew Pratt Guterl6. V-J Day, 1945, Times Square\u003cbr\u003e by Brooke L. Blower7. The Kinsey Reports\u003cbr\u003e by Naoko Shibusawa8. \u003ci\u003eThe Quiet American\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e by Fredrik Logevall9. That Touch of Mink\u003cbr\u003e by Nick Cullather10. The Immigration Reform Act of 1965\u003cbr\u003e by Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof11. President Jimmy Carter’s Inaugural Address\u003cbr\u003e by Mark Philip BradleyConclusion\u003cbr\u003e by Daniel T. Rodgers\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405159145815,"sku":"9780801479113","price":26.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801479113.jpg?v=1730488925","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-familiar-made-strange-9780801479113","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}