Tamson Pietsch is associate professor of social and political sciences, and director of the Australian Centre for Public History, at the University of Technology Sydney.
With its expert writing and construction, The Floating University is both a pleasure to read and a model of how to connect cultural and imperial histories. Pietsch paints a lively portrait of elite American thinking about knowledge and world affairs in the Jazz Age. * Christopher Endy, author of Cold War Holidays: American Tourism in France *