The Transnational Turn in the Studies of American Political-economic History and the Challenges It Faces
Since the 1980s,there has been a transnational trend in the studies of American political-economic history.Focusing on the transnational flows of people,goods,capital,ideas,and institutions in American history,researchers have re-imagined the spatial divisions and temporal frameworks of American political-economic history in the context of regional,national and global interactions,thus bringing about a transnational turn in research methods in this field.This turn helps us to re-conceptualize the simplified,linear models of modernization of the past by examining modernization processes in which politics,economy,and culture communicate in different regions in unpredictable ways.While outlining a more complex and detailed transnational network,the research also faces challenges.The transnational turn in historiography itself has a strong anti-exceptionalism tendency,emphasizing a kind of de-Americanism,but it ignores the role and significance of"exceptionalism"as an ideology in the United States.In the exploration of transnational political-economic history researchers need to examine the complex linkages between local particularities and transnational factors.
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