Introduction / Desley Deacon, Penny Russell, Angela Woollacott
pt. 1. Writing lives transnationally
Issues and methods
A story with an argument : writing the transnational life of a sea captain's wife / Martha Hodes
Peripheral visions : heterography and writing the transnational life of Sara Baartman / Pamela Scully
Boundaries cross bodies
Writing the entrapped nations of indigenous Australia into being / Penny van Toorn
Dancing with shadows : biography and the making and remaking of the Atlantic world / Michael McDonnell
pt. 2. Opportunities
Fantasies
Opportunists and impostors in the British imperial world : the tale of John Dow, convict, and Edward, Viscount Lascelles / Kirsten McKenzie
Imperial melodies : globalizing the lives of Cliff Richard and Engelbert Humperdinck / Adrian Carton
Colonial origins and audience collusion : the Merle Oberon story in 1930s Australia / Angela Woollacott
Livelihoods
Herbert Hoover and the transnational lives of engineers / Carroll Pursell
Manyats "sole delight" : travelling knowledge in Western Australia's southwest, 1830s / Tiffany Shellam
Connecting lives : Elihu Yale and the British East India Company / Rajani Sudan
Performances
"That will allow me to be my own woman" : Margaret Anglin, modernity, and transnational stages, 1890s-1940s / Cecelia Morgan
Made on stage : transnational performance and the worlds of Katherine Dunham from London to Dakar / Penny M. Von Eschen
pt. 3. Quests
Subaltern crossings : looking for liberty
The transnational lives of African-American colonists to Liberia / Bruce Dorsey
Resistance in exile : Anthony Martin Fernando, Australian Aboriginal activist, internationalist, and traveller in Europe / Fiona Paisley
Intimate crossings : looking for love
"Citizens of the world" : Jane Franklin's transnational fantasies / Penny Russell
The meanings of a transnational life : the case of Mary Berenson / Ros Pesman
pt. 4.
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Transnational lives : biographies of global modernity, 1700-present. ISBN 9780230238701. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
