The Past before us : contemporary historical writing in the United States edited for the American Historical Association by Michael Kammen

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kammen, Michael G.

American Historical Association

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography--United States--Congresses.

Historiography.

History--Methodology--Congresses.

History.

Physical Description:

524 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1980.

Summary:

"Is there a distinctive American style of historical scholarship? To what extent have quantitative methods and computer technology affected the writing of history? Has descriptive history been supplanted by analytical history? What constitutes adequate historical explanation? These are just a few of the questions addresed in "The Past Before Us." The contributors, twenty-one distinguished historians, discuss the state of their profession today and describe their interests, activities, and problems. Reflecting new and exciting trends in historical research, their essays, taken together, provide a searching assessment of the major advances in historical methods as well as in historical knowledge during the 1970s"--Jacket.

Contents:

Foreword / John Hope Franklin

Introduction : the historian's vocation and the state of the discipline in the United States / Michael Kammen

Fragmentation and unity in "American medievalism" / Karl F. Morrison

Early modern Europe / William J. Bouwsma

Modern European history / William H. McNeill

African history / Philip D. Curtin

The history of the Muslim middle east / Nikki R. Keddie

East, southeast, and south Asia / John Whitney Hall

Latin America and the Americas / Charles Gibson

Toward a wider vision: trends in social history / Peter N. Stearns

The new political history in the 1970s / Allan G. Bogue

Labor history in the 1970s: toward a history of the American worker / David Brody

Community studies, urban history, and American local history / Kathleen Neils Conzen

The negro in American history: as scholar, as subject / Jay Saunders Redding

Women and the family / Carl N. Degler.

Intellectual and cultural history / Robert Darnton

Marking time: the historiography of international relations / Charles S. Maier

Oral history in the United States / Herbert T. Hoover

Psychohistory / Peter Loewenberg

Quantitative social-scientific history / J. Morgan Kousser

Comparative history / George M. Fredrickson

The teaching of history / Hazel Whitman Hertzberg.

Notes:

"Prepared for presentation on the occasion of the fifteenth International Congress of Historical Sciences, held in Bucharest, Romania, August 1980."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Past before us.

ISBN:

0801412242

9780801412240

OCLC:

5800037