The Past Before Us : : Contemporary Historical Writing in the United States / / ed. by Michael Kammen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Bogue, Allan G.,; Bouwsma, William J.,; Brody, David,; Conzen, Kathleen Neils,; Curtin, Philip D.,; Darnton, Robert,; Degler, Carl N.,; Fredrickson, George M.,; Gibson, Charles,; Hoover, Herbert T.,; Hope Franklin, John,; Kammen, Michael,; Keddie, Nikki R.,; Kousser, J. Morgan,; Loewenberg, Peter,; Maier, Charles S.,; McNeill, William H.,; Morrison, Karl F.,; Saunders Redding, Jay,; Stearns, Peter N.,; Whitman Hertzberg, Hazel,; Whitney Hall, John,
• HerausgeberIn: Kammen, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1981
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (552 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgments --; Foreword --; Introduction: The Historian’s Vocation and the State of the Discipline in the United States --; PART ONE. UNITS OF TIME AND AREAS OF STUDY --; 1. Fragmentation and Unity in “American Medievalism” --; 2. Early Modern Europe --; 3. Modern European History --; 4. African History --; 5. The History of the Muslim Middle East --; 6. East, Southeast, and South Asia --; 7. Latin America and the Americas --; Part Two: Expanding fields of inquiry --; 8. Toward a Wider Vision: Trends in Social History --; 9. The New Political History in the 1970s --; 10. Labor History in the 1970s: Toward a History of the American Worker --; 11. Community Studies, Urban History, and American Local History --; 12. The Negro in American History: As Scholar, as Subject --; 13. Women and the Family --; 14. Intellectual and Cultural History --; 15. Marking Time: The Historiography of International Relations --; PART THREE. MODES OF GATHERING AND ASSESSING HISTORICAL MATERIALS --; 16. Oral History in the United States --; 17. Psychohistory --; 18 Quantitative Social-Scientific History --; 19 Comparative History --; 20 The Teaching of History --; THE CONTRIBUTORS --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501738661; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501738661
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Michael Kammen.

The contributors, 21 distinguished historians, discuss the state of their profession today and describe their interests, activities, and problems. Their essays, taken together, provide a searching assessment of the major advances in historical methods as well as in historical knowledge during the 1970s.