LEADER 00000nam 2200217 a 4500
001 0301241
003 UkHlHU
007 t
008 002705 1 1973 000 eng
020 0195019598 (pbk.)
040 UkHlHU
050 4 E 175 P8
100 1 Potter, David Morris,|eauthor.
245 10 History and American society :|bessays of David M. Potter
/|cedited by Don E. Fehrenbacher.
260 New York :|bOxford University Press,|c1973.
300 422p.
505 0 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.
650 0 National characteristics, American.
651 0 United States|xHistoriography.
700 1 Fehrenbacher, Don E.,|eeditor.
947 No ISBN assigned to hardback
