The past before us
contemporary historical writing in the United States
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Author
Contributions
- American Historical Association. - Contributor
Publication
1980 - Cornell University Press, Ithaca
Word Count
131,000 words, Guess
Page Count
524 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL21252844M
- ISBN-100801412242
- OCLC Control Number5800037
- OCLC Control Number87846051
- OCLC Control Number211
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- OCLC Control Numberpastbeforeuscont00kamm
- Library of Congress Control Number79025785
- LibraryThing1992742
Classifications
- LCCD13 .P36
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 addresed 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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