Reconstructing history : the emergence of a new historical society / edited by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese & Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn.

Other author Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, 1941-2007.
Other author Lasch-Quinn, Elisabeth.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, ©1999.
Descriptionxxii, 377 pages cm
Subjects

Contents A new departure / Eugene D. Genovese -- The past under siege: a historian ponders the state of his profession - and what to do about it / Marc Trachtenberg -- The future of history in an increasingly unified world / Alan Charles Kors -- Politics and multiculturalism / Daniel C. Littlefield -- Democracy in the ivory tower? Toward the restoration of an intellectual community / Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn -- History in a postmodern world / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- On the obsolescence of "Puritanism" as an epithet / Rochelle Gurstein -- Postmodernist history / Gertrude Himmelfarb -- A new intellectual history? / Russell Jacoby -- Henry Louis Gates, Sterling Brown, and the professional languages of African American literary criticism / Phillip M. Richards -- Confessions of an accidental (or perhaps overdetermined) historian / Leo P. Ribuffo -- Living in the Scottish Record Office / Deborah A. Symonds -- Writing the history of practice: the humanities and baseball, with a nod to wrestling / Bruce Kuklick -- The dilemmas of the contemporary military historian / Victor Davis Hanson -- Aristotle and the study of history: a manifesto / Paul A. Rahe -- What is a liberal education? / Donald Kagan -- The death of Jane Addams / Edward Berkowitz -- The controversy over national history standards / Diane Ravitch -- The National History Standards / John Patrick Diggins -- Clio banished? Battles over history in the schools / Sean Wilentz -- Whose history? Whose standards? / Walter A. McDougall -- Capitalism and socialism in the emergence of modern America: the formative era, 1890-1916 / Martin J. Sklar -- Center and periphery in the history of science / Miriam R. Levin -- Work in the Moctezuma Brewery / John Womack -- Faulkner's South: is there truth in fiction? / Louis Ferleger, Richard H. Steckel.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 99024892
ISBN041592278X
ISBN0415922798 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks D16.8 .R343 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold