British Nuclear Culture: Official and Unofficial Narratives in the Long 20th Century by Jonathan Hogg (review)
British Nuclear Culture: Official and Unofficial Narratives in the Long 20th Century by Jonathan Hogg (review)
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《英国核文化:漫长 20 世纪的官方和非官方叙事》乔纳森·霍格(Jonathan Hogg)(评论)
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of research—particularly through computational methods such as traffic analysis, topic modeling, network analysis, and mapping, to name a few. Anyone beginning a new project or advising student research will benefit from the comprehensible introduction they offer. In addition to describing new methodologies and the benefits they might yield, Allen and Connelly also offer caution about unsophisticated analysis and pitfalls that researchers could face when using such methods for the first time. Many of the chapters new to the third edition, such as Nathan J. Citino’s, introduce readers to related fields in history or other disciplines that could be beneficial to those writing on U.S. foreign relations. One of the main advantages of the comparative and frontier-borderlands approaches outlined by Citino would be history that treated the United States as less exceptional. Ussama Makdisi warns even more forcefully that scholarship emphasizing transnational approaches or locating itself within the field of “the United States and the world” risks being just as exceptionalist as earlier approaches to the role of the United States internationally. In contrast to the tone of much of the volume, Makdisi stridently argues that much progress remains to be made in internationalizing and contextualizing the writing of U.S. foreign relations history. Readers questioning the need for separate chapters on senses, emotions, and psychology will likely find that each intervention is warranted. In particular, Andy Rotter’s chapter on the senses describes some of the most interesting methodological innovations taking place in the field. Similarly, Citino’s and Emily Rosenberg’s chapters, which consider borderlands and borders, among other ideas, cover distinct ground despite the similar terminology in their titles. Mary Dudziak’s chapter on “legal history as foreign relations history” offers a roadmap for students and established scholars whose work would benefit from greater engagement with the law. Beyond the sum of each individual contribution, the book testifies to the state of the field—strong, diverse, and innovative. Rather than the defensive tone struck by the editors at the outset of the first edition regarding the stasis of the field or the cautious optimism they expressed in the second edition, Frank Costigliola and Michael Hogan confidently assert in their introduction to the third edition that foreign relations history is now at “the forefront of methodological innovation while retaining its solid grounding in the analysis of political, economic, cultural, and military power in world affairs” (p. 2).