List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; D.Deacon , P.Russell & A.Woollacott PART I: WRITING LIVES TRANSNATIONALLY Issues and Methods A Story with an Argument: Writing the Transnational Life of a Sea Captain's Wife; M.Hodes Peripheral Visions: Heterography and Writing the Transnational Life of Sara Baartman; P.Scully Boundaries Cross Bodies Writing the Entrapped Nations of Indigenous Australia into Being; P.van Toorn Dancing With Shadows: Biography and the Making and Remaking of the Atlantic World; M.McDonnell PART II: OPPORTUNITIES Fantasies Opportunists and Impostors in the British Imperial World: The Tale of John Dow, Convict, and Edward, Viscount Lascelles; K.McKenzie Imperial Melodies: Globalizing the Lives of Cliff Richard and Engelbert Humperdinck; A.Carton Colonial Origins and Audience Collusion: The Merle Oberon Story in 1930s Australia; A.Woollacott Livelihoods Herbert Hoover and the Transnational Lives of Engineers; C.Pursell Manyat's 'Sole Delight': Travelling Knowledge in Western Australia's Southwest, 1830s; T.Shellam Connecting Lives: Elihu Yale and the British East India Company; R.Sudan Performances 'That will allow me to be my own woman': Margaret Anglin, Modernity, and Transnational Stages, 1890s-1940s; C.Morgan Made on Stage: Transnational Performance and the Worlds of Katherine Dunham from London to Dakar; P.M.Von Eschen PART III: QUESTS Subaltern Crossings: Looking for Liberty? The Transnational Lives of African-American Colonists to Liberia; B.Dorsey Resistance in Exile: Anthony Martin Fernando, Australian Aboriginal Activist, Internationalist, and Traveller in Europe; F.Paisley ii - Intimate Crossings: Looking for Love 'Citizens of the World'?: Jane Franklin's Transnational Fantasies; P.Russell The Meanings of a Transnational Life: The Case of Mary Berenson; R.Pesman PART IV: COSMOPOLITANISM The World at Home Lowe Kong Meng Appeals to International Law: Transnational Lives Caught Between Empire and Nation; M.Lake Becoming Cosmopolitan: Judith Anderson in Sydney, Australia, 1913-1918; D.Deacon At Home in the World A World-War-II Odyssey: Michael Danos, En Route from Riga to New York; S.Fitzpatrick Donald Friend: An Australian Artist's Affair with Italy; I.Britain Gypsy in the Sun: The Transnational Life of Rosita Forbes; H-M.Teo
