The past before us
Subtitle: contemporary historical writing in the United States
By: edited for the American Historical Association by Michael Kammen. --
Contributors: American Historical Association.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 524
Subjects: Historiography -- United States -- Congresses
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.
Notes: "Prepared for presentation on the occasion of the fifteenth International Congress of Historical Sciences, held in Bucharest, Romania, August 1980." *** Includes bibliographical references and notes.

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