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Transnational Currents in a Shrinking World - 1870-1945 (Paperback)
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Transnational Currents in a Shrinking World - 1870-1945 (Paperback)
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Transnational Currents in a Shrinking World examines the wide
variety of social and cultural networks that emerged from the
global exchanges of the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Emily Rosenberg shows how transnational connections were being
formed many decades before "globalization" became a commonplace
term in economic and political discourse. Suggesting crisscrossing
flows of power, "currents" provide an especially apt metaphor for
transnational exchanges in the age of the telegraph and
incandescent light bulb. Rosenberg traces the internationalizing
currents that impelled a desire to create global rule-setting
institutions, from the Universal Postal Union to the International
Olympic Committee to the League of Nations. Other transnational
currents coalesced around social networks of class, ethnic, gender,
and religious affiliations; around exhibitions such as world fairs,
museums, and botanical gardens; around networks of expertise in
engineering, medicine, social science, and urban planning; and
around mass media and cultures of consumption. Rosenberg suggests
that these currents brought a modernity that mixed faith in the
rationality of science and technology with a fascination for
emotional and spectacle-driven entertainments. In this age of
nationalism and imperialism, they both assisted and disrupted
ambitions for territorial expansion; they ushered in a new world in
which fast-moving technologies of representation brought multiple
and shifting codes of meaning. Often overlooked in histories
centered on nation-states, transnational currents highlight the
irregular patterns of global change and underscore the fluidity of
spatial and personal identifications in the period from 1870 to the
end of World War II.
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