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Transnational history

Meaning in history, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In history, transnational history means: An approach tracing movements, relationships and processes across national boundaries.

In Turkish: ulusötesi tarih

How it is used

It follows connections across borders rather than simply placing national stories side by side.

Example sentences

  1. Her transnational history follows teachers moving between three countries.

    The moving actors link national settings into one inquiry.

  2. The archive of translations supports a transnational history of political ideas.

    Ideas cross borders through identifiable people and practices.

Common collocations

  • a transnational history
  • transnational historical networks
  • migrationThe movement of people from one place to another to live, either within a country or across borders, alone or in large groups.
  • historiographyThe writing of history, and especially the study of how historians have written about a subject over time, which sources they used and how their views changed.

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