Watersheds in Time and Place Writing American History in Europe

• Published in: Historians across Borders p. 3
• Main Authors: MICHAEL HEALE, SYLVIA HILTON, HALINA PARAFIANOWICZ, PAUL SCHOR, MAURIZIO VAUDAGNA
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of California Press 21.03.2014
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: American literature; American studies; Anthropology; Arts; Behavioral sciences; Cold wars; Comparative literature; Earth sciences; Education; Educational institutions; Ethnography; Ethnology; Formal education; Geography; Geologic provinces; Geomorphology; Historians; Historical methodology; Historiography; History; History instruction; History of the Americas; Humanities instruction; International disputes; International politics; International relations; Liberalism; Literary studies; Literature; Military history; North American history; Pedagogy; Physical sciences; Political ideologies; Political philosophy; Political science; Politics; Schools; Structural basins; United States history; Universities; Watersheds; World literature
• ISBN: 9780520279278; 0520279271

Promoting American history in Europe has been a thankless and even dangerous business. Charles Kingsley as regius professor of modern history at Cambridge in 1866 endorsed a proposal that Harvard send someone to lecture on American history every other year, but was angrily rebuffed by dons who feared for the monarchy and the Church of England, one thundering that “we shall be favored with a biennial flash of Transatlantic darkness.” For somewhat similar reasons, Tsar Nicholas I of Russia prohibited the teaching of comparative constitutional law in universities. The king of Naples jailed a professor in 1858 for citing George