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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kammen, Michael, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (552 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction: The Historian’s Vocation and the State of the Discipline in the United States

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

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

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-5017-3866-6

OCLC:

1178770006