History's Memory: Writing America’s Past, 1880-1980 - Softcover

Fitzpatrick, Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067401605X ISBN 13: 9780674016057

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Writing America's Past, 1880-1980

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Fitzpatrick...challenges what she contends is the dominant view among historians that the 1960s transformed historical study in the United States by introducing fields of inquiry and methodologies never explored before...Covering the era beginning in the last decades of the 19th century, Fitzpatrick persuasively contends that the historical profession and its scholarship were exceptionally diverse for generations prior to the Sixties. She reconsiders some well-known historians whose work has been discounted through the years and recounts studies by neglected or forgotten scholars who, in retrospect, dealt with important themes. Fitzpatrick argues that the claims that 1960s historians had discovered the role of class, race, and gender and applied new methods to the study of the past were at best ill informed and at worst false...[This is] a first-rate study. Highly recommended. -- Charles K. Piehl Library Journal 20020515

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Enthusiasts and critics both have looked to the political upheavals of the 1960s to explain recent transformations in historical study. But how new, in fact, are our contemporary approaches to the study and writing of American history? This question lies at the heart of History's Memory, Ellen Fitzpatrick's sweeping study of the past century of American historical writing. Through careful examination of hundreds of historical essays and books, Fitzpatrick has uncovered striking continuities in the writing of American history. The contributions of earlier scholars, some of them outside the mainstream of the historical profession, reveal that interest in the history of women, African Americans, Native Americans, and the working class has been long-standing. Whether in the Progressive era's attention to issues of class, or in the renewed concern with Native Americans in the 1930s and 1940s, Fitzpatrick demonstrates that over the past century historians have frequently grappled with issues that we think of today as innovative. This reinterpretation of a century of American historical writing challenges the notion that the politics of the recent past alone explains the politics of history. Fitzpatrick offers a wise historical perspective on today's heated debates, and reclaims the long line of historians who tilled the rich and diverse soil of our past.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 067401605X
• ISBN 13: 9780674016057
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336