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The Challenge of American History
Louis P. Masur (Ed.)
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Paperback. Additional essays discuss race and gender in colonial as well as modern America, the new paradigms of urban history, religious history, visual culture, public history, the new narrative history, and the meanings of national culture. Editor(s): Masur, Louis P. Num Pages: 344 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBA; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454. An excellent, clean copy
"If historical scholarship has often proved irrelevant to the world outside university walls, history itself has burst into the public domain. Over the last decade, we have witnessed intense national debates over how to present historic events to a public that attends museums, monitors education in the schools, and gazes at the History Channel. Under these circumstances, historians face the challenge of developing new ways of understanding the past and the place of the past in the present. The essays in this volume explore how scholars have reformulated the study of American history over the past fifteen years and identify ... Read more
"If historical scholarship has often proved irrelevant to the world outside university walls, history itself has burst into the public domain. Over the last decade, we have witnessed intense national debates over how to present historic events to a public that attends museums, monitors education in the schools, and gazes at the History Channel. Under these circumstances, historians face the challenge of developing new ways of understanding the past and the place of the past in the present. The essays in this volume explore how scholars have reformulated the study of American history over the past fifteen years and identify ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801862229
SKU
KRS0018845
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About Louis P. Masur (Ed.)
Louis Masur is professor of history at the City College of the City University of New York and the editor of Reviews in American History.
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