Transnational Asian Architectural History

Sports Celebrity in Japan: A Transnational History

Introduction: Challenges of a Transnational History

The Boundaries of a Trans-national Survey of Asian Architectural and Urban History

In constructing a survey of the architectural and urban history of traditional Asia, how would one define the edges of the region under study? This paper will argue that such a study can reasonably exclude Western Asia (also referred to as the Middle East, or the Ancient Orient), modern Siberia, much of the Indonesian Archipelago, the Philippines, Australia, and most of the Pacific Islands for ...

The South Asian Presence in Britain and its Transnational connections

The rapid growth of Britain’s South Asian population during the second half of the twentieth century, such that it included nearly two million people by the turn of the millennium, is best understood as the most recent manifestation of a dynamic series of inter-connections between the British Isles and the Indian subcontinent which were first began to emerge as Britain set about an Imperial pre...

Audience history as a history of ideas: towards a transnational history

One of the possible ways of approaching audience history is by focusing on the history of ideas about audiences. This article examines the benefits and shortcomings of such an approach and develops a set of methodological propositions, drawing on the principles and methods of the German tradition of Begriffsgeschichte (history of concepts). To demonstrate the usefulness of these propositions, t...