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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... ideas on how best to cast their papers . The most important of these decisions was that our collective aim should be to present a sustained though multivoiced re- flection on how American historians over the previous century or so have ...
... ideas of the relationship between America and the world are now being questioned , and a new transoceanic ... idea of the conference was launched , Vartan Gregorian , then president of Brown University , and Thomas Biersteker , director ...
... ideas on 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 ...
... idea when he wrote that Europe was " the seat of that continuous high civilization which we call ' western ' — which has come to be ... ideas vital to America originated and were first tested . In some cases , Americans 6 • MOLHO AND WOOD •
... ideas and methods dominant in the vari- ous social sciences " in order to further cooperation between history and the other social sciences and thus promote " greater understanding of how men and socie- ties change and develop through ...