附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Melvyn Stokes -- Writing the history of the American Revolution / Simon P. Newman -- Reshaping society : American social history from revolution to reconstruction / Christopher Clark -- Rediscovering Jacksonian America / Daniel Feller -- The evangelical surge and the significance of religion in the early United States, 1783-1865 / Mark A. Noll -- The New Deal in American scholarship / Alan Brinkley -- Beyond the "age of McCarthy": anticommunism and the historians / Michael J. Heale -- Segregation and civil rights : African American freedom strategies in the twentieth century / Adam Fairclough -- Industrial history : the state of the art / Howell John Harris -- Intellectual history, democracy, and the culture of irony / James T. Kloppenberg -- Women's history and gender / S. Jay Kleinberg -- Print and the public sphere in early America / Robert A. Gross -- The rise of film history / Melvyn Stokes -- The American West : from exceptionalism to internationalism / Patricia Nelson Limerick -- Orpheus turning : the present state of southern history / Michael O'Brien -- Class and the construction of "race" : White racism in the antebellum south / Michael Tadman -- Imagining Indians : differing perspectives on Native American history / Joy Porter -- Class in American history : issues and a case study / John Ashworth -- Conflict by consent : popular commitment, community participation, and the war for the Union / Peter J. Parish -- By way of Dubois : the question of Black initiative in the Civil War and Reconstruction / David Turley.
摘要:Historians are very much aware of the variety of national and international trends that have shaped historical inquiry in recent decades. Americanists, in particular, have been conscious of the growing importance of gender issues, the 'turn' to questions of language and meaning, the increasing significance of cultural matters, and a new emphasis on regional history. The 1990s, moreover, saw a major movement to internationalize approaches to American history by emphasizing comparisons with other countries and cultures. By the end of the twentieth century it was by no means clear whether there.
