The Challenges to Traditional Histories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23472001 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joan Hoff (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Pages | 111-122 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Organization of American Historians and the writing and teaching of American history (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199790562.003.0011 |
| OpenAlex | W2483287801 |
| ISBN | 9780199790562 |
| Language | EN |
This chapter discusses how general readers admire the traditional fields of political, economic, military, and diplomatic history more than professional historians do. It identifies a systematic crisis in the profession and questions how the discipline as a whole has dealt with the powerful challenge to the traditional fields from postmodern theories and deconstructionist methodologies. It shows that within the field of U.S. foreign policy, the basis for a mediating role lies between the challengers and the traditionalists, and the chapter ends with a call for more analysis of a traditional kind of American domestic and foreign policy.
| Highly cited | No |
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