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First, we wish to thank all those people involved in the conference, entitled the Trans-National History Symposium, which formed the basis of the present volume. While discussion of transnational history has been going on for some time in the United States, this was the first time transnational history had been discussed explicitly and in detail at a conference of historians in Australia. The Symposium, featuring some twenty participants, was held on 10 and 11 October 2004 at the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University and attracted a lively audience from around Australia and overseas.