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1、BeingaHistorianAnIntroductiontotheProfessionalWorldofHistoryBasedontheauthor’smorethanfiftyyearsofexperienceasaprofes-sionalhistorianinacademicandothercapacities,BeingaHistorianaddressesbothaspiringandmaturehistorians.Itoffersanoverviewofthestateofthed
2、isciplineofhistorytodayandtheproblemsthatcon-frontitanditspractitionersinmanyprofessions.JamesM.Banner,Jr.,arguesthathistoriansremaininadequatelypreparedfortheirrapidlychangingprofessionalworldandthatthedisciplineasawholehasyettoconfrontmanyofitsdefici
3、encies.Healsoarguesthat,nolongerneedingtoconformautomaticallytotheacademicideal,historianscannowmoresafelyandproductivelythaneverbeforeadapttotheirownvisions,temperaments,andgoalsastheytakeuptheirresponsibili-tiesasscholars,teachers,andpublicpractitio
4、ners.Criticalwhilealsooptimistic,thisworksuggestsmanytopicsforfurtherscholarlyandprofessionalexploration,research,anddebate.JamesM.Banner,Jr.,holdsaB.A.fromYaleandaPh.D.fromColumbia,wherehestudiedwithRichardHofstadter.From1966to1980,hewasamemberoftheh
5、istorydepartmentatPrincetonUniver-sity,whichhelefttofoundtheAmericanAssociationfortheAdvance-mentoftheHumanities.Hehasalsobeenabookpublisherandfoun-dationofficer.AformerGuggenheimFellow,FellowoftheCharlesWarrenCenterforStudiesinAmericanHistoryatHarvard
6、,memberoftheboardofdirectorsoftheAmericanCouncilofLearnedSoci-eties,andFulbrightVisitingProfessorofAmericanHistoryatCharlesUniversityinPrague,heistheauthorofmanybooksandessaysonAmericanhistory,education,andpublicaffairs.HehaswrittenfortheNewYorkTimes,
7、theWallStreetJournal,andothernewspapers.HismostrecentworksincludeTheElementsofTeachingandTheElementsofLearning,bothwithHaroldC.Cannon,andBecomingHistorians,editedwithJohnR.Gillis.HeisalsotheeditorofACenturyofAmeri-canHistoriography.Bannerisaco-founder
8、oftheHistoryNewsServiceandoftheNationalHistoryCenter.BeingaHistorianAnIntroductiontotheProfessionalWorldofHistoryJAMESM.BANNER,JR.cambridgeuniversitypressCambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,SaoPaulo,Delhi,MexicoCity˜Cambridge