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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. Foreword / John Hope Franklin -- Introduction : The Historian's Vocation And The State Of The Discipline In The United States / Michael Kammen -- Fragmentation And Unity In American Medievalism / Karl F. Morrison -- Early Modern Europe / William J. Bouwsma -- Modern European History / William H. Mcneill -- African History / Philip D. Curtin -- The History Of The Muslim Middle East / Nikki R. Keddie -- East, Southeast, And South Asia / John Whitney Hall -- Latin America

Author

Michael G Kammen; American Historical Association.; American Council of Learned Societies

Publisher

Ithaca: Cornell University Press

Published

1980

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801412240

Subjects

History, Humanities