• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The Past Before Us : Contemporary Historical Writing in the United States
  • Contributor: Kammen, Michael [Editor]
  • Published: Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, [2019]
    [Online-Ausgabe]
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (552 p)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.7591/9781501738661
  • ISBN: 9781501738661
  • Identifier:
  • Keywords: HISTORY / Historiography
  • Type of reproduction: [Online-Ausgabe]
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: In English
    Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
  • Description: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Historian’s Vocation and the State of the Discipline in the United States -- 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 -- 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 -- 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

    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
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