Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. PREFACE vii
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. CHAPTER 1. Exceptionalism 21
6. CHAPTER 2. Gender 41
7. CHAPTER 3. Economic History and the Cliometric Revolution 59
8. CHAPTER 4. The New and Newer Histories: Social Theory and Historiography in an American Key 85
9. CHAPTER 5. Explaining Racism in American History 107
10. CHAPTER 6. Crèvecoeur's Question: Historical Writing on Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity 120
11. CHAPTER 7. The Relevance and Irrelevance of American Colonial History 144
12. CHAPTER 8. Nineteenth-Century American History 164
13. CHAPTER 9. Americans and the Writing of Twentieth-Century United States History 185
14. CHAPTER 10. Western Civilization 206
15. CHAPTER 11. American Classical Historiography 222
16. CHAPTER 12. In the Mirrors Eye: The Writing of Medieval History in America 238
17. CHAPTER 13. The Italian Renaissance, Made in the USA 263
18. CHAPTER 14. Between Whig Traditions and New Histories: American Historical Writing about Reformation and Early Modern Europe 295
19. CHAPTER 15. Prescotts Paradigm: American Historical Scholarship and the Decline of Spain 324
20. CHAPTER 16. The American Historiography of the French Revolution 349
21. CHAPTER 17. Modern Europe in American Historical Writing 393
22. CHAPTER 18. Clio in Tauris: American Historiography on Russia 415
23. CHAPTER 19. House of Mirrors: American History-Writing on Japan 434
24. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 455
25. INDEX 459