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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... scholarship than any other nine- teenth - century subject " precisely because it defined the nation as no other nine- teenth - century event did . Indeed , the subject of the Civil War is especially attrac- tive in the present , writes ...
... scholarship . They not only profoundly transformed fields such as Medieval and Renaissance history and the history of modern Germany , but they affected history - writing in many other areas as well , including American history : think ...
... scholarship until after the Second World War . " The term itself , writes Rodgers , was coined by Stalinists in the 1920s un- happy with the heretical thinking of the American Communist Party . It then " unexpectedly found its way after ...
... scholarship ap- parently has fulfilled its destructive role only too well , and not just in America . As Carl Schorske has pointed out , " history , conceived as a continuous nourishing tradition , " no longer has the same meaning for ...
... scholarship and the demands of seeing the past as it really was can scarcely be stopped . Despite the consequent fragmentation and apparent disarray , the writing of history over the past several decades has enabled us to see more ...