CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. CONTENTS 7
3. Acknowledgments 9
4. Foreword 11
5. Introduction: The Historian’s Vocation and the State of the Discipline in the United States 19
6. PART ONE. UNITS OF TIME AND AREAS OF STUDY
7. 1. Fragmentation and Unity in “American Medievalism” 49
8. 2. Early Modern Europe 78
9. 3. Modern European History 95
10. 4. African History 113
11. 5. The History of the Muslim Middle East 131
12. 6. East, Southeast, and South Asia 157
13. 7. Latin America and the Americas 187
14. Part Two: Expanding fields of inquiry
15. 8. Toward a Wider Vision: Trends in Social History 205
16. 9. The New Political History in the 1970s 231
17. 10. Labor History in the 1970s: Toward a History of the American Worker 252
18. 11. Community Studies, Urban History, and American Local History 270
19. 12. The Negro in American History: As Scholar, as Subject 292
20. 13. Women and the Family 308
21. 14. Intellectual and Cultural History 327
22. 15. Marking Time: The Historiography of International Relations 355
23. PART THREE. MODES OF GATHERING AND ASSESSING HISTORICAL MATERIALS
24. 16. Oral History in the United States 391
25. 17. Psychohistory 408
26. 18 Quantitative Social-Scientific History 433
27. 19 Comparative History 457
28. 20 The Teaching of History 474
29. THE CONTRIBUTORS 505
30. INDEX 511