Connected Worlds History in Transnational Perspective Connected Worlds History in Transnational Perspective Co-edited by Ann Curthoys and Marilyn Lake Published by ANU E Press The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Email:
[email protected] Web: http://epress.anu.edu.au National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Connected worlds : history in trans-national perspective. Includes index ISBN 1 920942 44 0 ISBN 1 920942 45 9 (online) 1. Historiography. 2. World history. 3. Australia - Historiography. I. Curthoys, Ann, 1945- . II. Lake, Marilyn. 907.2094 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Copyedited and indexed by Robin Ward. Cover design by Brendon McKinley. The cover image was taken from Jacob Roggeveen (et al.), Dagverhaal der ontdekkings-reis van Mr. Jacob Roggeveen : met de Schepen den Arend, Thienhoven en de Afrikaansche Galei, in de jaren 1721 en 1722 / met toestemming van Zijne Excellentie den Minister van Kolonien uitgegeven door het Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen, (Middelburg: Gebroeders Abrahams, 1838), held in the Menzies Library rare book collection, The Australian National University, Canberra. This edition © 2005 ANU E Press Table of Contents Acknowledgements: .................................................................................. v Contributors: ............................................................................................vii 1. Introduction: Ann Curthoys and Marilyn Lake .......................................... 5 Different Modes of Transnational History .................................................. 21 2. Putting the nation in its place?: world history and C. A. Bayly’s The Birth of the Modern World: Tony Ballantyne ................................. 23 3. Paths not yet taken, voices not yet heard: rethinking Atlantic history: Michael A.