Imagined Histories: American Historians Interpret the PastAnthony Molho, Gordon S. Wood Princeton University Press, 1998 - 490 頁 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. |
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... Amer- ican historiography . We wish to thank Dr. Giovanni Ciappelli and Ms. Anna Rosa Muller for their excellent work in preparing the book's comprehensive index . We also wish to thank members of the staff of the Princeton University ...
... Amer- ican scholars have had a sense of their nation as the culmination of a long and great Western tradition , and this sense has underlain their extraordinary efforts to attach the history of the Old World to their national history ...
... Amer- icans from so many different social and ethnic backgrounds gone to college , earned higher degrees , and studied history . The women's movement has had equally powerful effects on the history pro- fession . The number of new ...
... Amer- ica , a point of view that , as the Canadian historian J. M. Bumsted points out , " stressed , explicitly or implicitly , the unique and exceptional nature of immi- gration to North America . " 20 Consequently , we now know that ...
... Amer- ican historians make between the foreign cultures they studied and their own American culture ? These are some of the issues addressed by the participants in this volume . Although all the contributors were given the freedom to ...