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The state of U.S. history / edited by Melvyn Stokes.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social conditions.
- Historiography.
- United States--Historiography.
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions--Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 448 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- State of US history
- State of United States history
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2002.
- Summary:
- The State of U.S. History offers an exciting introduction to the debates surrounding the major trends in American historical development and the crucial events and influences that have helped define the American experience.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Melvyn Stokes
- Pt. 1. Themes and periods. Writing the history of the American Revolution / Simon P. Newman
- Reshaping society: American social history from revolution to reconstruction / Christopher Clark
- Rediscovering Jacksonian America / Daniel Feller
- The evangelical surge and the significance of religion in the early United States, 1783-1865 / Mark A. Noll
- The New Deal in American scholarship / Alan Brinkley
- Beyond the "Age of McCarthy": anticommunism and the historians / Michael J. Heale
- Segregation and civil rights: African American freedom strategies in the twentieth century / Adam Fairclough
- Pt. 2. Fields. Industrial history: the state of the art / Howell John Harris
- Intellectual history, democracy, and the culture of irony / James T. Kloppenberg
- Women's history and gender / S. Jay Kleinberg
- Print and the public sphere in early America / Robert A. Gross
- The rise of film history / Melvyn Stokes
- Pt. 3. Regional history. The American West: from exceptionalism to internationalism / Patricia Nelson Limerick
- Orpheus turning: the present state of southern history / Michael O'Brien
- Pt. 4. Perspectives and problems. Class and the construction of "race": white racism in the American South / Michael Tadman
- Imagining Indians: differing perspectives on Native American history / Joy Porter
- Class in American history: issues and a case study / John Ashworth
- Conflict by consent: popular commitment, community participation, and the war for the Union / Peter J. Parish
- By way of Dubois: the question of black initiative in the Civil War and Reconstruction / David Turley.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1859735967
- 1859735029
- OCLC:
- 48376073
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