{"covers": [8187707], "key": "/works/OL17878625W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL5104731A"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL4714022A"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL7415104A"}}], "title": "The familiar made strange", "subject_places": ["United States"], "subjects": ["Historiography", "Transnationalism", "National characteristics, American, in literature", "National characteristics, American, in art", "National characteristics in literature", "Nationalism", "United states, historiography"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "In The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut across rather than stop at the nation's borders to model new interpretive approaches to studying United States history. These leading practitioners of the \"transnational turn\" pause to consider such famous icons as John Singleton Copley\u2019s painting Watson and the Shark, Alfred Eisenstaedt\u2019s photograph V-J Day, 1945, Times Square, and Alfred Kinsey\u2019s reports on sexual behavior, as well as more surprising but revealing artifacts like Josephine Baker\u2019s banana skirt and William Howard Taft\u2019s underpants. Together, they present a road map to the varying scales, angles and methods of transnational analysis that shed light on American politics, empire, gender, and the operation of power in everyday life.--Publisher website."}, "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2018-06-09T06:27:53.008968"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-11-12T22:00:34.644960"}}