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The Past before us : contemporary historical writing in the United States
"Is there a distinctive American style of historical scholarship? To what extent have quantitative methods and computer technology affected the writing of history? Has descriptive history been supplanted by analytical history? What constitutes adequate historical explanation? These are just a f...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1980.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / John Hope Franklin
- Introduction : the historian's vocation and the state of the discipline in the United States / Michael Kammen
- Fragmentation and unity in "American medievalism" / Karl F. Morrison
- Early modern Europe / William J. Bouwsma
- Modern European history / William H. McNeill
- African history / Philip D. Curtin
- The history of the Muslim middle east / Nikki R. Keddie
- East, southeast, and south Asia / John Whitney Hall
- Latin America and the Americas / Charles Gibson
- Toward a wider vision: trends in social history / Peter N. Stearns
- The new political history in the 1970s / Allan G. Bogue
- Labor history in the 1970s: toward a history of the American worker / David Brody
- Community studies, urban history, and American local history / Kathleen Neils Conzen
- The negro in American history: as scholar, as subject / Jay Saunders Redding
- Women and the family / Carl N. Degler.
- Intellectual and cultural history / Robert Darnton
- Marking time: the historiography of international relations / Charles S. Maier
- Oral history in the United States / Herbert T. Hoover
- Psychohistory / Peter Loewenberg
- Quantitative social-scientific history / J. Morgan Kousser
- Comparative history / George M. Fredrickson
- The teaching of history / Hazel Whitman Hertzberg.