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

Michael G. Kammen
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  • Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page 9)
  • Foreword (John Hope Franklin, page 11)
  • Introduction: The Historian's Vocation and the State of the Discipline in the United States (Michael Kammen, page 19)
  • PART ONE: UNITS OF TIME AND AREAS OF STUDY
    • 1. Fragmentation and Unity in "American Medievalism" (Karl F. Morrison, page 49)
    • 2. Early Modern Europe (William J. Bouwsma, page 78)
    • 3. Modern European History (William H. McNeill, page 95)
    • 4. African History (Philip D. Curtin, page 113)
    • 5. The History of the Muslim Middle East (Nikki R. Keddie, page 131)
    • 6. East, Southeast, and South Asia (John Whitney Hall, page 157)
    • 7. Latin America and the Americas (Charles Gibson, page 187)
  • PART TWO: EXPANDING FIELDS OF INQUIRY
    • 8. Toward a Wider Vision: Trends in Social History (Peter N. Stearns, page 205)
    • 9. The New Political History in the 1970s (Allan G. Bogue, page 231)
    • 10. Labor History in the 1970s: Toward a History of the American Worker (David Brody, page 252)
    • 11. Community Studies, Urban History, and American Local History (Kathleen Neils Conzen, page 270)
    • 12. The Negro in American History: As Scholar, as Subject (Jay Saunders Redding, page 292)
    • 13. Women and the Family (Carl N. Degler, page 308)
    • 14. Intellectual and Cultural History (Robert Darnton, page 327)
    • 15. Marking Time: The Historiography of International Relations (Charles S. Maier, page 355)
  • PART THREE: MODES OF GATHERING AND ASSESSING HISTORICAL MATERIALS
    • 16. Oral History in the United States (Herbert T. Hoover, page 391)
    • 17. Psychohistory (Peter Loewenberg, page 408)
    • 18. Quantitative Social-Scientific History (J. Morgan Kousser, page 433)
    • 19. Comparative History (George M. Frederickson, page 457)
    • 20. The Teaching of History (Hazel Whitman Hertzberg, page 474)
  • The Contributors (page 505)
  • Index (page 511)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
HTE 14.1 (Nov.1980): 144-145 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2745%28198011%2914%3A1%3C144%3ATPBUCH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B
JSH 47.3 (Aug. 1981): 428-429 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-4642%28198108%2947%3A3%3C428%3ATPBUCH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P
AHR 86.4 (Oct. 1981): 807-809 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28198110%2986%3A4%3C807%3ATPBUCH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M
RAH 9.1 (March 1981): 1-6 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0048-7511%28198103%299%3A1%3C1%3ATENC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q
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Published: c1980
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780801412240 (hardcover)
  • 9780801492310 (paper)
Subject
  • Methods/Theory
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