ACLS Humanities E-Book: The Past before us: contemporary historical writing in the United States

The Past before us: contemporary historical writing in the United States

Kammen, Michael G.

Year: c1980.

Publisher: Cornell University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Foreword

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

PART ONE: UNITS OF TIME AND AREAS OF STUDY

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

PART TWO: EXPANDING FIELDS OF INQUIRY

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

PART THREE: MODES OF GATHERING AND ASSESSING HISTORICAL MATERIALS

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

reviews

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Title:

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

Author:

Kammen, Michael G

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The Past before us : contemporary historical writing in the United States edited for the American Historical Association by Michael Kammen.
Kammen, Michael G
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, c1980.

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Subject Headings:

• History -- Methodology -- Congresses
• Historiography -- United States -- Congresses

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