Interpretations Of American History Volume I Through Reconstruction

Author : Francis G. Couvares,Martha Saxton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780684867731

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Interpretations of American History Vol. I by Francis G. Couvares,Martha Saxton Pdf

Contrary to conventional wisdom, no area of study is outdated more quickly than history, and no time has been more turbulent for the discipline than our own. This classic point/counterpoint reader in American history, now in a completely revised and updated seventh edition, takes note of history's impermanence, giving voice to the new without disposing of the old. In ten lively chapters, essays by the editors introduce dialectical readings by distinguished historians on topics from Reconstruction to the present. The essays and readings address history's timeless questions: "Reconstruction: Change or Stasis?," "American Imperialism: Economic Expansion or Ideological Crusade?," and "The Civil Rights Movement: Top-Down or Bottom-Up?" New readings are included on African Americans, women, and immigrants. In the fray of debate, eminent historians from Samuel Hays and Alfred Chandler to John Lewis Gaddis, Walter LaFeber, and Kathryn Kish Sklar struggle to interpret the past. The editors'essays moderate.

Author : Francis G. Couvares,Martha Saxton,Gerald N. Grob,George Athan Billias
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0312480490

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Interpretations of American History, Volume I: Through Reconstruction by Francis G. Couvares,Martha Saxton,Gerald N. Grob,George Athan Billias Pdf

Now in a new edition from Bedford/St. Martin’s, Interpretations of American History offers an essential collection of essays and readings on American historiography. Each chapter opens with an extended essay that explores the historiography specific to that chapter’s topic, followed by two readings by preeminent historians that highlight different — although not always diametrically opposed — historical approaches. Fully updated for the next generation of scholars, the most respected historiographical reader now comes with all the care and quality that you expect from Bedford/St. Martin’s.

Author : Gerald N. Grob,George Athan Billias
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451602340

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Interpretations of American History, 6th Ed, Vol. by Gerald N. Grob,George Athan Billias Pdf

This collection of essays on American history reflects recent scholarship. Contributors new to this edition include Gary Nash, Arthur Schlesinger, Richard P. McCormick, Gerda Lerner, Ellen C. DuBois, Vicki L. Ruiz, Nathan I. Huggins, John Lewis Gaddis, Paul Kennedy and Kevin P. Philips. Edited by Gerald N. Grob and George Athan Billias.

Author : Francis G. Couvares,Martha Saxton,Gerald N. Grob,George Athan Billias
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0312480504

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Interpretations of American History, Volume 2: From Reconstruction by Francis G. Couvares,Martha Saxton,Gerald N. Grob,George Athan Billias Pdf

Now in a new edition from Bedford/St. Martin’s, Interpretations of American History offers an essential collection of essays and readings on American historiography. Each chapter opens with an extended essay that explores the historiography specific to that chapter’s topic, followed by two readings by preeminent historians that highlight different — although not always diametrically opposed — historical approaches. Fully updated for the next generation of scholars, the most respected historiographical reader now comes with all the care and quality that you expect from Bedford/St. Martin’s.

Author : Gerald N. Grob
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015001370462

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Interpretations of American History by Gerald N. Grob Pdf

Author : Eric Foner
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 1566395526

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The New American History by Eric Foner Pdf

Originally released in 1990, The New American Historyedited for the American Historical Association by Eric Foner, has become an indispensable volume for teachers and students. In essays that chart the shifts in interpretation within their fields, some of our most prominent American historians survey the key works and themes in the scholarship of the last three decades. Along with substantially revised essays from the first edition, this volume presents three entirely new ones - on intellectual history, the history of the West, and the histories of the family and sexuality. The second edition of The New American Historyreflects, in Foner's words, "the continuing vitality and creativity of the study of the past, how traditional fields are being expanded and redefined even as new ones are created." Author note: Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books, including Reconstruction, 1863-1877which was awarded the Bancroft Prize.

Author : Francis G. Couvares,Gerald N. Grob,Martha Saxton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0684871181

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Patterns and Perspectives by Francis G. Couvares,Gerald N. Grob,Martha Saxton Pdf

Contrary to conventional wisdom, no area of study is outdated more quickly than history, and no time has been more turbulent for the discipline than our own. This classic point/counterpoint reader in American history, now in a completely revised and updated seventh edition, takes note of history's impermanence, giving voice to the new without disposing of the old. In ten lively chapters, essays by the editors introduce dialectical readings by distinguished historians on topics from Reconstruction to the present. The essays and readings address history's timeless questions: Reconstruction: Change or Stasis?, American Imperialism: Economic Expansion or Ideological Crusade?, and The Civil Rights Movement: Top-Down or Bottom-Up? New readings are included on African Americans, women, and immigrants. In the fray of debate, eminent historians from Samuel Hays and Alfred Chandler to John Lewis Gaddis, Walter LaFeber, and Kathryn Kish Sklar struggle to interpret the past. The editors'essays moderate the passionate arguments and offer a clear, distanced vision of the changing character of history. They explain how history has usually been viewed through the lens of the present and demonstrate with sparkling historiography that the discipline is as contemporary as the headlines of today, as vital as the problems of tomorrow.

Author : Eric Foner
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 1025 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062035868

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Reconstruction by Eric Foner Pdf

From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), a newly updated edition of the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America, with a new introduction from the author. Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed. Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white—responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. It addresses the ways in which the emancipated slaves' quest for economic autonomy and equal citizenship shaped the political agenda of Reconstruction; the remodeling of Southern society and the place of planters, merchants, and small farmers within it; the evolution of racial attitudes and patterns of race relations; and the emergence of a national state possessing vastly expanded authority and committed, for a time, to the principle of equal rights for all Americans. This "smart book of enormous strengths" (Boston Globe) remains the standard work on the wrenching post-Civil War period—an era whose legacy still reverberates in the United States today.

Author : Gerald N. Grob
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : United States
ISBN : LCCN:67012834

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Interpretations of American History: Patterns and Perspectives by Gerald N. Grob Pdf

In ten lively chapters, essays by the editors introduce dialectical readings by distinguished historians on topics from Reconstruction to the present. The essays and readings address history's timeless questions: "Reconstruction: Change or Stasis?," "American Imperialism: Economic Expansion or Ideological Crusade?," and "The Civil Rights Movement: Top-Down or Bottom-Up?" New readings are included on African Americans, women, and immigrants. In the fray of debate, eminent historians from Samuel Hays and Alfred Chandler to John Lewis Gaddis, Walter LaFeber, and Kathryn Kish Sklar struggle to interpret the past. The editors'essays moderate the passionate arguments and offer a clear, distanced vision of the changing character of history. They explain how history has usually been viewed through the lens of the present and demonstrate with sparkling historiography that the discipline is as contemporary as the headlines of today, as vital as the problems of tomorrow.

Author : Aaron Astor,Thomas Buchanan
Publisher : Interpreting American History
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1606354221

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Slavery: Interpreting American History by Aaron Astor,Thomas Buchanan Pdf

A survey and interpretive study of one of the defining issues in America's past Americans have vigorously debated and interpreted the role of slavery in American life for as long as enslaved people and their descendants have lived in North America. Contemporaries and later writers and scholars up to the present day have explored the meaning of slavery as a system of labor, an ideological paradox in a "free" political and social order, a violent mode of racial exploitation, and a global system of human commodification and trafficking. To fully understand the various ways in which slavery has been depicted and described is a difficult task. Like any other important historical issue, this requires a thorough grasp of the underlying history, methodological developments over time, and the contemporary politics and culture of historians' own times. And the case of slavery is further complicated, of course, by changes in the legal and political status of African Americans in the 20th and 21st centuries. Slavery: Interpreting American History, like other volumes in the Interpreting American History series, surveys interpretations of important historical eras and events, examining both the intellectual shifts that have taken place and various catalysts that drove those shifts. While the depth of Americans' historiographical engagement with slavery is not surprising given the turbulent history of race in America, the range and sheer volume of writing on the subject, spanning more than two centuries, can be overwhelming. Editors Aaron Astor and Thomas Buchanan, together with a team of expert contributors, highlight here the key debates and conceptual shifts that have defined the field. The volume will be an especially helpful guide for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, professional historians new to the field, and other readers interested in the study of American slavery.

Author : Gerald N. Grob
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1991-12-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 002912686X

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Interpretations of American History, 6th Ed, Vol. 2 by Gerald N. Grob Pdf

This collection of essays on American history reflects recent scholarship. Contributors new to this edition include Gary Nash, Arthur Schlesinger, Richard P. McCormick, Gerda Lerner, Ellen C. DuBois, Vicki L. Ruiz, Nathan I. Huggins, John Lewis Gaddis, Paul Kennedy and Kevin P. Philips. Edited by Gerald N. Grob and George Athan Billias.

Author : P. Scott Corbett,Volker Janssen,John M. Lund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1738998436

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U.S. History by P. Scott Corbett,Volker Janssen,John M. Lund Pdf

Printed in color. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.

Author : Steven E. Nash,Bruce E. Stewart
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820355122

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Southern Communities by Steven E. Nash,Bruce E. Stewart Pdf

Community is an evolving and complex concept that historians have applied to localities, counties, and the South as a whole in order to ground larger issues in the day-to-day lives of all segments of society. These social networks sometimes unite and sometimes divide people, they can mirror or transcend political boundaries, and they may exist solely within the cultures of like-minded people. This volume explores the nature of southern communities during the long nineteenth century. The contributors build on the work of scholars who have allowed us to see community not simply as a place but instead as an idea in a constant state of definition and redefinition. They reaffirm that there never has been a singular southern community. As editors Steven E. Nash and Bruce E. Stewart reveal, southerners have constructed an array of communities across the region and beyond. Nor do the contributors idealize these communities. Far from being places of cooperation and harmony, southern communities were often rife with competition and discord. Indeed, conflict has constituted a vital part of southern communal development. Taken together, the essays in this volume remind us how community-focused studies can bring us closer to answering those questions posed to Quentin Compson in Absalom, Absalom!: "Tell [us] about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all."

Author : Christopher G. Bates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1453 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317457404

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The Early Republic and Antebellum America by Christopher G. Bates Pdf

First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Author : Rimi Xhemajli
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725269224

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The Supernatural and the Circuit Riders by Rimi Xhemajli Pdf

In The Supernatural and the Circuit Riders, Rimi Xhemajli shows how a small but passionate movement grew and shook the religious world through astonishing signs and wonders. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, early American Methodist preachers, known as circuit riders, were appointed to evangelize the American frontier by presenting an experiential gospel: one that featured extraordinary phenomena that originated from God's Spirit. In employing this evangelistic strategy of the gospel message fueled by supernatural displays, Methodism rapidly expanded. Despite beginning with only ten official circuit riders in the early 1770s, by the early 1830s, circuit riders had multiplied and caused Methodism to become the largest American denomination of its day. In investigating the significance of the supernatural in the circuit rider ministry, Xhemajli provides a new historical perspective through his eye-opening demonstration of the correlation between the supernatural and the explosive membership growth of early American Methodism, which fueled the Second Great Awakening. In doing so, he also prompts the consideration of the relevance and reproduction of such acts in the American church today.