Imagined histories : American historians interpret the past / edited by Anthony Molho and Gordon S. Wood.
Molho, Anthony.; Wood, Gordon S.
1998
D13.5.U6 I57 1998 (Mapit)
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Title Imagined histories : American historians interpret the past / edited by Anthony Molho and Gordon S. Wood.
ISBN 0691058105 (alk. paper)
9780691058108 (alk. paper)
0691058113 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780691058115 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Publication Details Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1998.
Language English
Description ix, 490 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number D13.5.U6 I57 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification 907/.2073
Summary "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 nineteenth century through its present, more cosmopolitan character." " In the book's first part, concerning recent historiography, are chapters on exceptionalism, gender, economic history, social theory, race, and immigration and multiculturalism. Authors are Daniel Rodgers, Linda Kerber, Naomi Lamoreaux, Dorothy Ross, Thomas Holt, and Philip Gleason. The three American centuries are discussed in the second part, with chapters by Gordon Wood, George Fredrickson, and James Patterson. The third part is a chronological survey of non-American histories, including that of Western civilization, ancient history, the middle ages, early modern and modern Europe, Russia, and Asia. Contributors are Eugen Weber, Richard Saller, Gabrielle Spiegel, Anthony Molho, Philip Benedict, Richard Kagan, Keith Baker, Joseph Zizak, Volker Berghahn, Charles Maier, Martin Malia, and Carol Gluck." "Together, these scholars reveal the unique perspective American historians have brought to the past of their own nation as well as that of the world. Formerly writing from a conviction that America had a singular destiny, American historians have gradually come to share viewpoints of historians in other countries about which they write. The result is the virtual disappearance of what was a distinctive American voice. That voice is the subject of this book."--Book Cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Wood, Gordon S.
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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.

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