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Author Potter, David Morris, author.
Title History and American society : essays of David M. Potter / edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher.
Publication Info New York : Oxford University Press, 1973.


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 BJL 4th Floor  E 175 P8  8 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE
 Wilberforce Institute  E 175 P8  DEPT DECISION  ASK AT DEPT

Descript 422p.
Contents Explicit data and implicit assumptions in historical study.--The tasks of research in American history.--History and the social sciences.--Historians and the problem of large-scale community formation.--The historians use of nationalism and vice versa.--Abundance and the Turner thesis.--C. Vann Woodward and the uses of history.--Conflict, consensus, and comity: a review of Richard Hofstadter's The progressive historians.--Roy F. Nichols and the rehabilitation of American political history.--Is America a civilization?--The quest for the national character.--American individualism in the twentieth century.--American women and the American character.--The roots of American alienation.--Rejection of the prevailing American society.--Social cohesion and the crisis of law.
ISBN 0195019598 (pbk.)
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Author Potter, David Morris, author.
Subject National characteristics, American.
United States -- Historiography.
Alt author Fehrenbacher, Don E., editor.
Descript 422p.
Contents Explicit data and implicit assumptions in historical study.--The tasks of research in American history.--History and the social sciences.--Historians and the problem of large-scale community formation.--The historians use of nationalism and vice versa.--Abundance and the Turner thesis.--C. Vann Woodward and the uses of history.--Conflict, consensus, and comity: a review of Richard Hofstadter's The progressive historians.--Roy F. Nichols and the rehabilitation of American political history.--Is America a civilization?--The quest for the national character.--American individualism in the twentieth century.--American women and the American character.--The roots of American alienation.--Rejection of the prevailing American society.--Social cohesion and the crisis of law.
ISBN 0195019598 (pbk.)
Author Potter, David Morris, author.
Subject National characteristics, American.
United States -- Historiography.
Alt author Fehrenbacher, Don E., editor.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL 4th Floor  E 175 P8  8 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE
 Wilberforce Institute  E 175 P8  DEPT DECISION  ASK AT DEPT

Subject National characteristics, American.
United States -- Historiography.
Descript 422p.
Contents Explicit data and implicit assumptions in historical study.--The tasks of research in American history.--History and the social sciences.--Historians and the problem of large-scale community formation.--The historians use of nationalism and vice versa.--Abundance and the Turner thesis.--C. Vann Woodward and the uses of history.--Conflict, consensus, and comity: a review of Richard Hofstadter's The progressive historians.--Roy F. Nichols and the rehabilitation of American political history.--Is America a civilization?--The quest for the national character.--American individualism in the twentieth century.--American women and the American character.--The roots of American alienation.--Rejection of the prevailing American society.--Social cohesion and the crisis of law.
Alt author Fehrenbacher, Don E., editor.
ISBN 0195019598 (pbk.)

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