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title	:	The New American History Critical Perspectives On the Past
author	:	Foner, Eric.
publisher	:	Temple University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	1566395526
print isbn13	:	9781566395526
ebook isbn13	:	9780585364254
language	:	English
subject	United States--Historiography.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	E175.N53 1997eb
ddc	:	973/.072
subject	:	United States--Historiography.

Page i The New American History

Page ii In the series Critical Perspectives on the Past, edited by Susan Porter Benson, Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenzweig

Page iii The New American History Revised and Expanded Edition Edited for the American Historical Association by Eric Foner

Page iv Temple University Press, Philadelphia 19122 Copyright 1997 by Temple University. All rights reserved Published 1997 Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The new American history / edited for the American Historical Association by Eric Foner. Rev. and expanded ed. p. cm. (Critical perspectives on the past) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 1-56639-551-8 (cloth : alk. paper). ISBN 1-56639-552-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. United StatesHistoriography. I. Foner, Eric. II. American Historical Association. III. Series. E175.N53 1997 973'.072dc21 96-52059

Page v CONTENTS Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition Eric Foner vii Introduction to the First Edition Eric Foner ix Part I Eras of the American Past 1 Beneficiaries of Catastrophe: The English Colonies in America John M. Murrin 3 2 The Revolutionary Generation: Ideology, Politics, and Culture in the Early Republic Linda K. Kerber 31 3 Society, Politics, and the Market Revolution, 18151848 Sean Wilentz 61

Page vi 4 Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction Eric Foner 85 5 Public Life in Industrial America, 18771917 Richard L. McCormick 107 6 Prosperity, Depression, and War, 19201945 Alan Brinkley 133 7 America since 1945 William H. Chafe 159 Part II Major Themes in the American Experience 8 Intellectual and Cultural History Thomas Bender 181 9 Western History Richard White 203 10 Social History Alice Kessler-Harris 231 11 U.S. Women's History Linda Gordon 257 12 The History of the Family and the History of Sexuality Estelle B. Freedman 285 13 African-American History Thomas C. Holt 311 14 American Labor History Leon Fink 333 15 Ethnicity and Immigration James P. Shenton and Kevin Kenny 353 16 Liberty and Power: U.S. Diplomatic History, 17501945 Walter Lafeber 375 About the Contributors 395

Page vii PREFACE TO THE REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION In the years since the new american history was published in 1990, THE study and teaching of history unexpectedly emerged as the subject of intense public debate. For a time, one could scarcely open a newspaper without encountering bitter controversy over the public presentation of the American past. Previously uncontroversial historical anniversaries became occasions for heated debate. The ambiguity that marked the quincentenary of Columbus's voyage to the New World, for example, contrasted dramatically with the unembarrassed celebration of its four hundredth anniversary a century earlier. No one in the 1890s seemed to doubt that 1492 marked an epochal moment in the progress of human civilization, while in 1992, the celebration was tempered by constant reminders of chattel slavery, the decimation of native populations, and other less than glorious consequences. Three years later, a proposed exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb produced howls of outrage from veterans organizations, who charged that initial plans cast the Japanese of the Second World War as innocent victims rather than aggressors. The pressure exerted by these organizations, augmented by the threat of a reduction in congressional funding, forced the curators to rewrite the exhibition script to highlight Japan's wartime atrocities and

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