The State of U S History 1st Edition by Melvyn Stokes ISBN 1859735029 978-1859735022

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ISBN 10: 1859735029

ISBN 13:  978-1859735022

Author: Melvyn Stokes

Historians are very much aware of the variety of national and international trends that have shaped historical inquiry in recent decades. Americanists, in particular, have been conscious of the growing importance of gender issues, the ‘turn’ to questions of language and meaning, the increasing significance of cultural matters, and a new emphasis on regional history. The 1990s, moreover, saw a major movement to internationalize approaches to American history by emphasizing comparisons with other countries and cultures. By the end of the twentieth century it was by no means clear whether there was any distinctive ‘American’ history or, if it did exist, what its main contours were. This book brings together a distinguished international group of scholars in an effort to answer this key question through a sustained interrogation of the periods, themes, fields, problems and perspectives in historical writing on the United States. How have the intricate issues surrounding gender, race, slavery and civil rights been resolved and interpreted in recent American history? How have historians dealt with the complexities of events such as the American Revolution, the Civil War, Reconstruction and the New Deal in developing their historical narratives? In what ways have technological developments in industry, print and film influenced the questions historians ask?The State of U.S. History offers an exciting introduction to the debates surrounding the major trends in American historical debates and the crucial events and influences that have helped define the American experience.

Table of contents: 

Part I: Themes and Periods

1 Writing the History of the American Revolution – Simon P. Newman
2 Reshaping Society: American Social History from Revolution to Reconstruction – Christopher Clark
3 Rediscovering Jacksonian America – Daniel Feller
4 The Evangelical Surge and the Significance of Religion in the Early United States, 1783–1865 – Mark A. Noll
5 The New Deal in American Scholarship – Alan Brinkley
6 Beyond the “Age of McCarthy”: Anticommunism and the Historians – Michael J. Heale
7 Segregation and Civil Rights: African American Freedom Strategies in the Twentieth Century – Adam Fairclough

Part II: Fields

1 Industrial History: The State of the Art – Howell John Harris
2 Intellectual History, Democracy, and the Culture of Irony – James T. Kloppenberg
3 Women’s History and Gender – S. Jay Kleinberg
4 Print and the Public Sphere in Early America – Robert A. Gross
5 The Rise of Film History – Melvyn Stokes
Part III: Regional History

1 The American West: From Exceptionalism to Internationalism – Patricia Nelson Limerick
2 Orpheus Turning: The Present State of Southern History – Michael O’Brien
Part IV: Perspectives and Problems

1 Class and the Construction of “Race”: White Racism in the American South – Michael Tadman
2 Imagining Indians: Differing Perspectives on Native American History – Joy Porter
3 Class in American History: Issues and a Case Study – John Ashworth
4 Conflict by Consent: Popular Commitment, Community Participation, and the War for the Union – Peter J. Parish
5 By Way of DuBois: The Question of Black Initiative in the Civil War and Reconstruction – David Turley

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