Over the last decade or so, intellectual historians in and beyond the US field have deepened their engagement with the historical profession's “transnational turn.” This welcome development should hardly be a surprise; after all the turn, which began for Americanists in the late 1990s, owed a good part of its erudition and its energy to some of the most distinguished intellectual historians of that time. Thomas Bender convened four conferences at NYU's La Pietra villa—itself part of some intellectual-history footnotes in the early twentieth century—and also made major scholarly and organizational contributions to the field. Two of the most frequently cited works that made the case for the “internationalization of US history”—avant la lettre—were by similarly preeminent intellectual historians Daniel Rodgers and James Kloppenberg. Other scholars, like David Hollinger, encouraged such work in their students before undertaking a more robustly transnational approach themselves. A wealth of scholarship in recent years has not just continued this tradition but expanded it, with intellectual historians individually and collectively pursuing their subjects across geographic borders as well as methodological boundaries. Two recent edited collections showcase work by scholars (mostly mid-career or younger) and contemplate the possibilities and the limits of different scales and methods of investigating the past in its broadest contexts.

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帝国，可见和不可见

在过去十年左右的时间里，美国领域内外的知识史学家加深了他们对历史专业“跨国转向”的参与。这种受欢迎的发展应该不足为奇。毕竟，始于 1990 年代后期的美国主义者的转变，很大程度上归功于当时一些最杰出的知识分子历史学家。Thomas Bender 在纽约大学的 La Pietra 别墅召开了四次会议——这本身就是 20 世纪初一些知识史脚注的一部分——并且还对该领域做出了重大的学术和组织贡献。最常被引用的两部著作为“美国历史的国际化”提供了依据——前卫文学——由同样杰出的知识史学家丹尼尔·罗杰斯和詹姆斯·克洛彭伯格撰写。其他学者，如大卫霍林格，在自己采取更强有力的跨国方法之前，鼓励学生开展此类工作。近年来大量的学术研究不仅延续了这一传统，而且扩展了它，知识史学家个人和集体地跨越地理边界和方法论边界追求他们的主题。最近编辑的两个收藏展示了学者（主要是职业中期或更年轻）的作品，并考虑了在最广泛的背景下调查过去的不同规模和方法的可能性和局限性。