TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bogue,Allan G.
AU  - Bouwsma,William J.
AU  - Brody,David
AU  - Conzen,Kathleen Neils
AU  - Curtin,Philip D.
AU  - Darnton,Robert
AU  - Degler,Carl N.
AU  - Fredrickson,George M.
AU  - Gibson,Charles
AU  - Hoover,Herbert T.
AU  - Hope Franklin,John
AU  - Kammen,Michael
AU  - Keddie,Nikki R.
AU  - Kousser,J.Morgan
AU  - Loewenberg,Peter
AU  - Maier,Charles S.
AU  - McNeill,William H.
AU  - Morrison,Karl F.
AU  - Saunders Redding,Jay
AU  - Stearns,Peter N.
AU  - Whitman Hertzberg,Hazel
AU  - Whitney Hall,John
TI  - The Past Before Us: Contemporary Historical Writing in the United States 
SN  - 9781501738661
AV  - D13 .P36 2019
U1  - 901 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Historiography
KW  - United States
KW  - Congresses
KW  - History
KW  - Methodology
KW  - HISTORY / Historiography
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501738661
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501738661
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501738661/original
ER  -