Transnational Books for Children 1750-1900

Three late-nineteenth-century American farm boys wrote and illustrated a homemade library. The Nelson family lived in rural New Hampshire, USA in what seem narrowly local circumstances – far from transnational. Yet the books they create depict an imaginary “World”. Their library reflects competition and conflict between imaginary nations, but also collaboration, with some books claiming transnational authorship and publication sites. International communication provides impetus for the Nels