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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