Imagined Histories : : American Historians Interpret the Past /

Imagined Histories : : American Historians Interpret the Past / / ed. by Gordon S. Wood, Anthony Molho.

This collection of essays by twenty-one distinguished American historians reflects on a peculiarly American way of imagining the past. At a time when history-writing has changed dramatically, the authors discuss the birth and evolution of historiography in this country, from its origins in the late...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Baker, Keith Michael,
Benedict, Philip,
Berghahn, Volker,
Fredrickson, George M.,
Gleason, Philip,
Gluck, Carol,
Holt, Thomas C.,
Kagan, Richard L.,
Kerber, Linda K.,
Lamoreaux, Naomi R.,
Maier, Charles,
Malia, Martin,
Molho, Anthony,
Patterson, James T.,
Rodgers, Daniel T.,
Ross, Dorothy,
Saller, Richard,
Spiegel, Gabrielle M.,
Weber, Eugen,
Wood, Gordon S.,
Zizek, Joseph,
HerausgeberIn:
Molho, Anthony,
Wood, Gordon S.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©1999
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 1. Exceptionalism
  • CHAPTER 2. Gender
  • CHAPTER 3. Economic History and the Cliometric Revolution
  • CHAPTER 4. The New and Newer Histories: Social Theory and Historiography in an American Key
  • CHAPTER 5. Explaining Racism in American History
  • CHAPTER 6. Crèvecoeur's Question: Historical Writing on Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity
  • CHAPTER 7. The Relevance and Irrelevance of American Colonial History
  • CHAPTER 8. Nineteenth-Century American History
  • CHAPTER 9. Americans and the Writing of Twentieth-Century United States History
  • CHAPTER 10. Western Civilization
  • CHAPTER 11. American Classical Historiography
  • CHAPTER 12. In the Mirrors Eye: The Writing of Medieval History in America
  • CHAPTER 13. The Italian Renaissance, Made in the USA
  • CHAPTER 14. Between Whig Traditions and New Histories: American Historical Writing about Reformation and Early Modern Europe
  • CHAPTER 15. Prescotts Paradigm: American Historical Scholarship and the Decline of Spain
  • CHAPTER 16. The American Historiography of the French Revolution
  • CHAPTER 17. Modern Europe in American Historical Writing
  • CHAPTER 18. Clio in Tauris: American Historiography on Russia
  • CHAPTER 19. House of Mirrors: American History-Writing on Japan
  • LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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