Imagined histories : American historians interpret the past /
This collection of essays by twenty-one distinguished American historians reflects on a peculiarly American way of imagining the past. At a time when history-writing has changed dramatically, the authors discuss the birth and evolution of historiography in this country, from its origins in the late...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
1998.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv346tcb |
Table of Contents:
- Exceptionalism / Daniel T. Rodgers
- Gender / Linda K. Kerber
- Economic history and the cliometric revolution / Naomi R. Lamoreaux
- The new and newer histories : social theory and historiography in an American key / Dorothy Ross
- Explaining racism in American history / Thomas C. Holt
- Crèvecoeur's question : historical writing on immigration, ethnicity, and national identity / Philip Gleason
- The relevance and irrelevance of American colonial history / Gordon S. Wood
- Nineteenth-century American history / George M. Fredrickson
- Americans and the writing of twentieth-century United States history / James T. Patterson
- Western civilization / Eugen Weber
- American classical historiography / Richard Saller
- In the mirror's eye : the writing of medieval history in America / Gabrielle M. Spiegel
- The Italian Renaissance, made in the USA / Anthony Molho
- Between Whig traditions and new histories : American historical writing about Reformation and early modern Europe / Philip Benedict
- Prescott's paradigm : American historical scholarship and the decline of Spain / Richard L. Kagan
- The American historiography of the French Revolution / Keith Michael Baker and Joseph Zizek
- Modern Europe in American historical writing / Volker Berghahn and Charles Maier
- Clio in Tauris : American historiography on Russia / Martin Malia
- House of mirrors : American history-writing on Japan / Carol Gluck.