The New History : : The 1980s and Beyond / / ed. by Theodore K. Rabb, Robert I. Rotberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, John W.,; Bogue, Allan G.,; Bouwsma, William J.,; Clarke, Peter,; Cohn, Bernard S.,; Colton, Joel,; Davis, Natalie Z.,; Ginzburg, Carlo,; Herlihy, David,; Julliard, Jacques,; Rabb, Theodore K.,; Revel, Jacques,; Shore, Miles F.,; Smith, Peter H.,; Stone, Lawrence,; Supple, Barry,; Temin, Peter,; Thackray, Arnold,; Wrigley, E. A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Rabb, Theodore K.,; Rotberg, Robert I.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©1983
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Interdisciplinary History ; 5132
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Political History in the 1980s -- A View from Latin America -- Reflections on its Present and Future -- Ideas and Interests -- A Comment -- Family History in the 1980s -- Past Achievements and Future Trends -- Biography in the 1980s -- A Psychoanalytic Perspective -- Quantification in the 1980s -- Numerical and Formal Analysis in European History -- Numerical and Formal Analysis in United States History -- Economic History in the 1980s -- The Future of the New Economic History -- Old Problems and New Directions -- Population History in the 1980s -- The Prospects for Population History -- Anthropology and History in the 1980s -- Toward a Rapprochement -- Consensus, Community, and Exoticism -- The Possibilities of the Past -- A Comment -- Intellectual History in the 1980s -- From History of Ideas to History of Meaning -- The Case for the Defense -- History of Science in the 1980s -- Science, Technology, and Medicine -- Toward the Future -- Coherence, Synthesis, and Quality in History -- The Contributors