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Book SynopsisOffers a collection of essays by twenty-one American historians that reflects on a peculiarly American way of imagining the past. Divided into three parts, this work contains chapters on exceptionalism, gender, economic history, social theory, race, and immigration and multiculturalism. It also has a chronological survey of non-American histories.
Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction3Ch. 1Exceptionalism21Ch. 2Gender41Ch. 3Economic History and the Cliometric Revolution59Ch. 4The New and Newer Histories: Social Theory and Historiography in an American Key85Ch. 5Explaining Racism in American History107Ch. 6Crevecoeur's Question: Historical Writing on Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity120Ch. 7The Relevance and Irrelevance of American Colonial History144Ch. 8Nineteenth-Century American History164Ch. 9Americans and the Writing of Twentieth-Century United States History185Ch. 10Western Civilization206Ch. 11American Classical Historiography222Ch. 12In the Mirror's Eye The Writing of Medieval History in America238Ch. 13The Italian Renaissance, Made in the USA263Ch. 14Between Whig Traditions and New Histories: American Historical Writing about Reformation and Early Modern Europe295Ch. 15Prescott's Paradigm American Historical Scholarship and the Decline of Spain324Ch. 16The American Historiography of the French Revolution349Ch. 17Modern Europe in American Historical Writing393Ch. 18Clio in Tauris American Historiography on Russia415Ch. 19House of Mirrors American History-Writing on Japan434List of Contributors455Index459
