American history now / edited for the American Historical Association by Eric Foner and Lisa McGirr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Foner, Eric.

McGirr, Lisa, 1962-

American Historical Association.

Series:

Critical perspectives on the past.

Critical perspectives on the past

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Historiography.

United States.

United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (439 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

American History Now collects eighteen original historiographic essays that survey recent scholarship in American history and trace the shifting lines of interpretation and debate in the field. Building on the legacy of two previous editions of The New American History, this volume presents an entirely new group of contributors and a reconceptualized table of contents. The new generation of historians showcased in American History Now have asked new questions and developed new approaches to scholarship to revise the prevailing interpretations of the chronological periods from the Colonial era to the Reagan years. Covering the established subfields of women's history, African American history, and immigration history, the book also considers the history of capitalism, Native American history, environmental history, religious history, cultural history, and the history of "the United States in the world. "American History Now provides an indispensible summation of the state of the field for those interested in the study and teaching of the American past.

Contents:

Contents; Volume Editors' Preface; Series Editor's Preface; Part I: Eras of the American Past; 1. Squaring the Circles: The Reach of Colonial America; 2. American Revolution and Early Republic; 3. Jacksonian America; 4. Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction; 5. The Possibilities of Politics: Democracy in America, 1877 to 1917; 6. The Interwar Years; 7. The Uncertain Future of American Politics, 1940 to 1973; 8. 1973 to the Present; Part II: Major Themesin the American Experience; 9. The United States in the World; 10. The "Cultural Turn"; 11. American Religion

12. Frontiers, Borderlands, Wests13. Environmental History; 14. History of American Capitalism; 15. Women's and Gender History; 16. Immigration and Ethnic History; 17. American Indians and the Study of U.S. History; 18 African-American History; Contributors

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: The new American history. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613196323

9781283196321

1283196328

9781439902455

1439902453

OCLC:

733816018