Transnational Lives

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Desley Deacon, Penny Russell, Angela Woollacott

      Pages 1-11

3. Writing Lives Transnationally

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-14

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   2. A Story with an Argument: Writing the Transnational Life of a Sea Captain’s Wife

      • Martha Hodes

      Pages 15-26

   3. Peripheral Visions: Heterography and Writing the Transnational Life of Sara Baartman

      • Pamela Scully

      Pages 27-40

   4. Writing the Entrapped Nations of Indigenous Australia into Being

      • Penny van Toorn

      Pages 41-53

   5. Dancing with Shadows: Biography and the Making and Remaking of the Atlantic World

      • Michael A. McDonnell

      Pages 54-66

4. Opportunities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-68

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   2. Opportunists and Impostors in the British Imperial World: The Tale of John Dow, Convict, and Edward, Viscount Lascelles

      • Kirsten McKenzie

      Pages 69-81

   3. Imperial Melodies: Globalizing the Lives of Cliff Richard and Engelbert Humperdinck

      • Adrian Carton

      Pages 82-95

   4. Colonial Origins and Audience Collusion: The Merle Oberon Story in 1930s Australia

      • Angela Woollacott

      Pages 96-108

   5. Herbert Hoover and the Transnational Lives of Engineers

      • Carroll Pursell

      Pages 109-120

   6. Manyat’s ‘Sole Delight’: Travelling Knowledge in Western Australia’s Southwest, 1830s

      • Tiffany Shellam

      Pages 121-132

   7. Connecting Lives: Elihu Yale and the British East India Company

      • Rajani Sudan

      Pages 133-143

   8. ‘That will allow me to be my own woman’: Margaret Anglin, Modernity and Transnational Stages, 1890s–1940s

      • Cecilia Morgan

      Pages 144-155

   9. Made on Stage: Transnational Performance and the Worlds of Katherine Dunham from London to Dakar

      • Penny M. Von Eschen

      Pages 156-167

5. Quests

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-170

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   2. The Transnational Lives of African American Colonists to Liberia

      • Bruce Dorsey

      Pages 171-182

   3. Resistance in Exile: Anthony Martin Fernando, Australian Aboriginal Activist, Internationalist and Traveller in Europe

      • Fiona Paisley

      Pages 183-194

   4. ‘Citizens of the World?’: Jane Franklin’s Transnational Fantasies

      • Penny Russell

      Pages 195-208

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.

• liberty
• mobility
• resistance
• Sudan

• Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Australia

  Desley Deacon

• Department of History, University of Sydney, Australia

  Penny Russell

• Australian National University, Australia

  Angela Woollacott

DESLEY DEACON  is Professor of Gender History in the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. She taught in the American Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin from 1985 to 2001. She is the author of Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life (Chicago 1997) and is writing a life of the Australian-born international star Judith Anderson.
PENNY RUSSELL  Associate Professor of History at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her books include A Wish of Distinction: Colonial Gentility and Femininity (Melbourne University Press, 1994); and This Errant Lady: Jane Franklin's Overland Journey to Port Phillip and Sydney, 1839 (National Library of Australia, 2002). She is currently completing Arctic Romance: Lady Franklin and the Lost Polar Expedition for the University of Toronto Press.

ANGELA WOOLLACOTT  is the Manning Clark Professor of History at the Australian National University. Her books include On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War (University of California Press, 1994); To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism and Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2001); and Gender and Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

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