The Past Before Us: Contemporary Historical Writing in the United States
- ISBN-10
- 0801412242
- ISBN-13
- 9780801412240
- Pages
- 524
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1980
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Authors
- American Historical Association, Michael G. Kammen, Cornell University Press
Description
"Is there a distinctive American style of historical scholarship? To what extent have quantitative methods and computer technology affected the writing of history? Has descriptive history been supplanted by analytical history? What constitutes adequate historical explanation? These are just a few of the questions addressed in "The Past Before Us." The contributors, twenty-one distinguished historians, discuss the state of their profession today and describe their interests, activities, and problems. Reflecting new and exciting trends in historical research, their essays, taken together, provide a searching assessment of the major advances in historical methods as well as in historical knowledge during the 1970s"--Jacket.
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