Interpretations of American History Vol. 1 : Through Reconstruction - Patterns and Perspectives

Couvares, Francis G.; Saxton, Martha; Grob, Gerald N.; Billias, George Athan

ISBN 10: 0312480490 / ISBN 13: 9780312480493

Published by Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Interpretations of American History Vol. 1 : Through Reconstruction - Patterns and Perspectives
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312480490
• ISBN 13: 9780312480493
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Francis G. Couvares is the E. Dwight Salmon Professor of History and American Studies at Amherst College. He is the author of The Remaking of Pittsburgh: Class and Culture in an Industrializing City 1877-1919 (1984) and editor of Movie Censorship and American Culture, Second Edition (2006).

Martha Saxton is an Associate Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies and the Elizabeth Bruss Reader at Amherst College. She has written biographies of Louisa May Alcott and Jayne Mansfield, as well as Being Good: Women’s Moral Values In Early America (2003), and numerous essays on women in early America.
 

Founding editors of Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob and George Athan Billias are Sigerist Professor of the History of Medicine Emeritus at Rutgers University and Hyatt Professor of History Emeritus at Clark University, respectively.