After the Fact
McGraw Hill Higher Education (Verlag)
978-0-07-229428-6 (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 and full-time writer, he is author of The Logic of Millennial Thought: Eighteenth Century New England, Great Heart: the History of a Labrador Adventure (with John Rugge), and other books. Mark H.Lytle received his PhD from Yale University and is Professor of History and Environmental Studies as well as Chair of the American Studies Program at Bard College. He is also Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard. His publications include The Origins of the Iranian-American Alliance, 1941-1953, After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (with James West Davidson) and, most recently, "An Environmental Approach to American Diplomatic History" in Diplomatic History. He is at work on The Uncivil War: America in the Vietnam Era.
The view from the bottom rail - oral history and the freed people; the mirror with a memory - photographic evidence and the urban scene; USDA government inspected - the jungle of political history; Sacco and Vanzetti - the case of history versus law; dust bowl odyssey - the collective history of a migration; the decision to drop the bomb - the uses of models in history; from Rosie to Lucy - the mass media and images of women in the 1950s; breaking into Watergate - plumbing a presidency through audio tapes; where trouble comes - history and myth on the films of Vietnam.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.11.1999 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 233 mm |
| Gewicht | 379 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-07-229428-0 / 0072294280 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-07-229428-6 / 9780072294286 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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