The Past Before Us : : Contemporary Historical Writing in the United States /

The Past Before Us : : Contemporary Historical Writing in the United States / / 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 19...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (552 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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