OXO: Or, the Challenges of Transnational History

This article discusses the benefits and challenges of transnational approaches for modern European history. It reconstructs the origins of a particular Anglo-German entanglement: the meat essence OXO, originally a German invention made in South America by a London-based company. And it links this ex...

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Published inEuropean history quarterly Vol. 40; no. 4; pp. 656 - 668
Main Author Rüger, Jan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.10.2010
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Business history
Effects
Europe
European history
European studies
Germany
Historical analysis
Historiography
Inventions
Modern history
Multinational enterprises
Nation state
OXO brand
Transnationalism
United Kingdom
nation state
transnationalism
historiography
Europe
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Summary:This article discusses the benefits and challenges of transnational approaches for modern European history. It reconstructs the origins of a particular Anglo-German entanglement: the meat essence OXO, originally a German invention made in South America by a London-based company. And it links this example to the questions prompted by the rise of transnational history. Surveying the recent literature, the article argues that the parallel histories of nation states and the transnational interest in the space between and beyond them need not be mutually exclusive. The microhistory of OXO thus illustrates the weaknesses as much as the strengths of ‘transnationalism’.
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ISSN:0265-6914
1461-7110
DOI:10.1177/0265691410376488