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Anonymous Americans: Explorations in Nineteenth-Century Social History ed. by Tamara K. Hareven (review)

The task of assembling a book of original essays and maintaining a uniformly high level of quality is not an easy one. Professor Hareyen has succeeded admirably in this task. Her collection provides an excellent introduction to the most advanced scholarship in American social history. Professor Hareven's introduction to the collection is brief, but right to the point. She clearly differentiates the new social history from the old. This is not the history of social customs and institutions but the history of people 'from the bottom up.' Unlike some recent advocates of this form of historical writing, she is modest enough to recognize that in many respects the new social historians follow closely the methodological and presentist orientation of Beard, Turner, and' Caroline Ware. Yet, Hareven stresses that they differ from the Progressive historians, in that her contributors seek to uncover the sources for the history of the inarticulate.