Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States (1993), New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time (1988), and Community and Social Change in America (1978) and the editor of The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation (California, 1992).

• Preface Introduction. Historians, the Nation, and the Plenitude of Narratives Thomas Bender Part I. Historicizing the Nation Part II. New Historical Geographies and Temporalities Part III. Opening the Frame Part IV. The Constraints of Practice Appendix. Participants in the La Pietra Conferences, 1997--2000 Contributors Index

Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States (1993), New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time (1988), and Community and Social Change in America (1978) and the editor of The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation (California, 1992).

• Preface Introduction. Historians, the Nation, and the Plenitude of Narratives Thomas Bender Part I. Historicizing the Nation Part II. New Historical Geographies and Temporalities Part III. Opening the Frame Part IV. The Constraints of Practice Appendix. Participants in the La Pietra Conferences, 1997--2000 Contributors Index

Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States (1993), New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time (1988), and Community and Social Change in America (1978) and the editor of The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation (California, 1992).

• Preface Introduction. Historians, the Nation, and the Plenitude of Narratives Thomas Bender Part I. Historicizing the Nation Part II. New Historical Geographies and Temporalities Part III. Opening the Frame Part IV. The Constraints of Practice Appendix. Participants in the La Pietra Conferences, 1997--2000 Contributors Index