Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer

“This collection offers a practical introduction to the theory, methodology and implications of intercultural history. The book’s well-researched, clearly argued case studies bring together a mass of material and references that will be much appreciated by researchers focused on social policy, philanthropy, cultural institutions and popular culture in transnational context.”
—Alan Lessoff, University Professor of History, Illinois State University, USA

“Thomas Adam’s new book provides us with a rich and stimulating collection of essays. The many different examples of cross-national and cross-Atlantic exchanges make the book interesting to a wide range of readers, while also serving as a model of how to design similar case studies. He argues convincingly that transfer did not make the world more homogeneous, but that it strengthened its diversity.”
—Axel Körner, Professor of Modern History, and Director, UCL Centre for Transnational History, University College London

The analysis of the resemantizations that led to the creation of an American culture constitutes a promising new field of inquiry in the wide framework of transcultural transfer. Thomas Adam's book is an important milestone in this regard. — Michel Espagne: Rezension zu: Adam, Thomas: T. Adam: Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer London 2020. ISBN 9781785271656, in: Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists, 26.03.2021,