| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 423 pages) |
| Series |
Critical perspectives on the past |
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Critical perspectives on the past.
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| Contents |
Squaring the circles: the reach of Colonial America / Alan Taylor -- American Revolution and early Republic / Woody Holton -- Jacksonian America / Seth Rockman -- Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction / Adam Rothman -- The possibilities of politics: democracy in America, 1877 to 1917 / Robert D. Johnston -- The interwar years / Lisa McGirr -- The uncertain future of American politics, 1940 to 1973 / Meg Jacobs -- 1973 to the present / Kim Phillips-Fein -- The United States in the world / Erez Manela -- The "cultural turn" / Lawrence B. Glickman -- American religion / John T. McGreevy -- Frontiers, borderlands, wests / Stephen Aron -- Environmental history / Sarah T. Phillips -- History of American capitalism / Sven Beckert -- Women's and gender history / Rebecca Edwards -- Immigration and ethnic history / Mae M. Ngai -- American Indians and the study of U.S. history / Ned Blackhawk -- African-American history / Kevin Gaines |
| Summary |
American History Now collects eighteen original historiographic essays that survey recent scholarship in American history and trace the shifting lines of interpretation and debate in the field. Building on the legacy of two previous editions of The New American History, this volume presents an entirely new group of contributors and a reconceptualized table of contents. The new generation of historians showcased in American History Now have asked new questions and developed new approaches to scholarship to revise the prevailing interpretations of the chronological periods from the Colonial era t |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Historiography
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140129
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Foner, Eric, 1943-
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McGirr, Lisa, 1962-
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American Historical Association.
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| ISBN |
9781439902455 |
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1439902453 |
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9786613196323 |
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6613196320 |
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