After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection Combined
McGraw-Hill Professional (Verlag)
978-0-07-229426-2 (ISBN)
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For more than twenty years, After the Fact has been a popular and best-selling approach to guiding students through American History and the methods used to generate it. In fifteen dramatic episodes that move chronologically through American history, this book examines such topics as oral evidence, photographs, ecological data, films and television programs, church and town records, census data, and novels.
James West Davidson received his B.A. from Haverford College and his Ph.D. from Yale University. A historian who has pursued a full-time writing career, he is the author of numerous books, among them After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (with Mark H. Lytle), The Logic of Millennial Thought: Eighteenth Century New England, and Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure (with John Rugge). He is co-editor with Michael Stiff of the Oxford New Narratives in American History, in which his most recent book appears: 'They Say': Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race. Mark H. Lytle received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is Professor of History and Environmental Studies. he has served two years as Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History at University College, Dublin, in Ireland. His publications include The Origins of the Iranian-American Alliance, 1941-1953, After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (with James West Davidson), America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon, and, most recently, The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement. He is co-editor of a joint issue of the journals of Diplomatic History and Environmental History dedicated to the field of environmental diplomacy.
CHAPTER ONEServing Time in Virginia:The Perspectives of Evidence in Social HistoryCHAPTER TWOThe Visible and Invisible Worlds of Salem:Studying Crisis at the Community LevelCHAPTER THREEDeclaring Independence:The Strategies of Documentary AnalysisCHATPER FOURJackson’s Frontier—and Turner’s:History and Grand TheoryCHAPTER FIVEThe Invisible Pioneers:Ecological Transformations along the Western FrontierCHAPTER SIXThe Madness of John Brown:The Uses of PsychohistoryCHAPTER SEVENThe View from the Bottom Rail:Oral History and the FreedpeopleCHAPTER EIGHTThe Mirror with a Memory:Photographic Evidence and the Urban SceneCHAPTER NINEUSDA Government Inspected:The Jungle of Political HistoryCHAPTER TENSacco and Vanzetti:The Case of History versus LawCHAPTER ELEVENDust Bowl Odyssey:The Collective History of a MigrationCHAPTER TWELVEThe Decision to Drop the Bomb:The Uses of Models in HistoryCHAPTER THIRTEENFrom Rosie to Lucy:The Mass Media and Images of Women in the 1950sCHAPTER FOURTEENBreaking into Watergate:Plumbing a Presidency through Audio TapesCHAPTER FIFTEENWhere Trouble Comes:History and Myth in the Films of Vietnam
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.11.1999 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 569 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-07-229426-4 / 0072294264 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-07-229426-2 / 9780072294262 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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