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Author Noble, David W.

Title Historians against history; the frontier thesis and the national covenant in American historical writing since 1830 David W. Noble. -

Publication Info. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1965]

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  E175.9 .N6 1965    Available  ---
Description 197 pages; 24 cm
Bibliography Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages 181-187)
Contents Flight from feudalism: the new world and the puritan covenant -- Nature and the fulfilment of the covenant / George Bancroft -- The machine and the loss of the covenant / Frederick Jackson Turner -- Industrialism and the covenant restored / Charles A. Beard -- Europe and the roots of the covenant / Carl Becker -- The covenant and the Jeffersonian Jeremiad -- The covenant threatened by institutional power / Bread -- The covenant replaced by civilization / Becker -- Blackstone and the conservation of the American cobenant / Daniel Boorstin -- The end of the covenant and the beginning of American history.
Subject Frontier thesis.
Frontier thesis.
United States -- Historiography.
United States.
Historiography.