American history now [[electronic resource] /] / edited for the American Historical Association by Eric Foner and Lisa McGirr

• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (439 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.072
• Soggetto geografico: United States Historiography; United States History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: FonerEric McGirrLisa <1962->
• Note generali: Rev. ed. of: The new American history. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1997.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Volume Editors' Preface; Series Editor's Preface; Part I: Eras of the American Past; 1. Squaring the Circles: The Reach of Colonial America; 2. American Revolution and Early Republic; 3. Jacksonian America; 4. Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction; 5. The Possibilities of Politics: Democracy in America, 1877 to 1917; 6. The Interwar Years; 7. The Uncertain Future of American Politics, 1940 to 1973; 8. 1973 to the Present; Part II: Major Themesin the American Experience; 9. The United States in the World; 10. The "Cultural Turn"; 11. American Religion ; 12. Frontiers, Borderlands, Wests13. Environmental History; 14. History of American Capitalism; 15. Women's and Gender History; 16. Immigration and Ethnic History; 17. American Indians and the Study of U.S. History; 18 African-American History; Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: American History Now collects eighteen original historiographic essays that survey recent scholarship in American history and trace the shifting lines of interpretation and debate in the field. Building on the legacy of two previous editions of The New American History, this volume presents an entirely new group of contributors and a reconceptualized table of contents.The new generation of historians showcased in American History Now have asked new questions and developed new approaches to scholarship to revise the prevailing interpretations of the chronolog
• Titolo autorizzato: American history now
• ISBN: 9786613196323; 1-283-19632-8; 1-4399-0245-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456533003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical perspectives on the past.