Reconstructing History: The Emergence of a New Historical Society

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese; Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 400
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I THE IMPERATIVE: THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AS A CRITIQUE AND A NEW IDEAL
1 A New Departure
2 The Past under Siege: A Historian Ponders the State of His Profession—and What to Do about It
3 The Future of History in an Increasingly Unified World
4 Politics and Multiculturalism
5 Democracy in the Ivory Tower? Toward the Restoration of an Intellectual Community
PART II HISTORY AND THE CONTEMPORARY INTELLECTUAL MILIEU
6 History in a Postmodern World
7 On the Obsolescence of "Puritanism" as an Epithet
8 Postmodernist History
9 A New Intellectual History?
10 Henry Louis Gates, Sterling Brown, and the Professional Languages of African American Literary Criticism
PART III MEDITATIONS ON THE PRACTICE OF HISTORY
11 Confessions of an Accidental (or Perhaps Overdetermined) Historian
12 Living in the Scottish Record Office
13 Writing the History of Practice: The Humanities and Baseball, with a Nod to Wrestling
14 The Dilemmas of the Contemporary Military Historian
15 Aristotle and the Study of History: A Manifesto
16 What Is a Liberal Education?
17 The Death of Jane Addams
PART IV AN EDUCATIONAL MISSION: STANDARDS FOR THE TEACHING OF HISTORY
18 The Controversy over National History Standards
19 The National History Standards
20 Clio Banished? Battles over History in the Schools
21 Whose History? Whose Standards?
PART V HISTORIANS AT WORK
22 Capitalism and Socialism in the Emergence of Modern America: The Formative Era, 1890-1916
23 Center and Periphery in the History of Science
24 Work in the Moctezuma Brewery
25 Faulkner's South: Is There Truth in Fiction?
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