A restless past : history and the American public / Joyce Appleby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Appleby, Joyce, 1929-2016.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography--Social aspects--United States.

Historiography.

Historiography--Political aspects--United States.

Historiography--Political aspects.

Historiography--Social aspects.

United States--Historiography.

United States.

United States--History--Philosophy.

History.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

vii, 191 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2005]

Summary:

A Restless Past brings together four articles, two lectures, and three presidential addresses written by Joyce Appleby, a historian of the American colonial period and the revolutionary era. Composed at the end of a long career, the selections reflect Appleby's critical interest in how historians approach the past, as well as how the public responds to their work. The individual pieces chart the shifts in subjets and methods over the past fifteen years, examining social history, ideological history and the impact of postmodernism upon historians.

Contents:

Without resolution : the Jeffersonian tension in American nationalism

A different kind of independence : the postwar restructuring of the historical study of early America

The American heritage : the heirs and the "disinherited"

Recovering America's historic diversity : beyond exceptionalism

The enlightenment project in a postmodernist age

One good turn deserves another : moving beyond the linguistic : a response to David Harlan

The power of history

Presidents, congress, and courts : partisan passions in motion

The vexed story of capitalism told by American historians.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0742542521

OCLC:

56085676