Bulletin n. 1/2013
June 2013
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Pratt Guterl Matthew
    The Futures of Transnational History
    in American Historical Review , Volume 118, Issue 1, February ,  2013 ,  130-139
    In the three contributions to this AHR Forum, the life is a stand-in for something else: for the nation, for the world, for the trans-nation. The “life” here is different. It is not offered up in the sense of your typical biography, where the goal is to unearth the minutiae of the everyday, to plot a single human being's circumstance in all of its cradle-to-the-grave detail, and in doing so to explain his or her consequence. Instead, the purpose of the “life” in these projects is to contain and focus an answer to a question that might, were it not appropriately consolidated, expand without end, and to reveal, through that containment and focus, something new—something exciting—about the relations of the self to place, time, and space. Each in their own way, the three essays in this forum reveal where we—historians of the trans-nation—are today, and suggest where we might need to go. Every life tells us something new and exciting; every life has consequences for what we can write and imagine. This trio arrived on my desk this past fall, catching me by surprise, and in a moment of somber reflection. I had recently given a public talk about Josephine Baker, the object of my attention for the past six years—and a “life” to match, in spirit, the group here. After recounting my travels over this period of research and laying out what remained to be done, I had half-jokingly described my biography of the …
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