By Donovan A. Shilling
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This quantity is the result of a transatlantic dialog at the subject """"Transnational America,"""" within which greater than sixty students from universities within the usa and Germany accumulated to evaluate the historic importance of and consider the educational customers for the """"transnational turn"""" in American experiences.
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