Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Ch. 1 Exceptionalism
Ch. 2 Gender
Ch. 3 Economic History and the Cliometric Revolution
Ch. 4 The New and Newer Histories: Social Theory and Historiography in an American Key
Ch. 5 Explaining Racism in American History
Ch. 6 Crevecoeur's Question: Historical Writing on Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity
Ch. 7 The Relevance and Irrelevance of American Colonial History
Ch. 8 Nineteenth-Century American History
Ch. 9 Americans and the Writing of Twentieth-Century United States History
Ch. 10 Western Civilization
Ch. 11 American Classical Historiography
Ch. 12 In the Mirror's Eye The Writing of Medieval History in America
Ch. 13 The Italian Renaissance, Made in the USA
Ch. 14 Between Whig Traditions and New Histories: American Historical Writing about Reformation and Early Modern Europe
Ch. 15 Prescott's Paradigm American Historical Scholarship and the Decline of Spain
Ch. 16 The American Historiography of the French Revolution
Ch. 17 Modern Europe in American Historical Writing
Ch. 18 Clio in Tauris American Historiography on Russia
Ch. 19 House of Mirrors American History-Writing on Japan
List of Contributors
Index