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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Tác giả khác: Molho, Anthony, Wood, Gordon S.
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press 1998.
Loạt:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv346tcb
Mục lục:
  • 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.