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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1981Description: 1 online resource (552 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501738661
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 901 23
LOC classification:
  • D13 .P36 2019
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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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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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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