| Description |
xx, 370 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
The Dorsey series in American history
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Dorsey series in American history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
"Pictures in Our Heads": Symbolic Forms amid the Flux -- "Perspectives" on Historical Reality: The Relativist Dilemma -- The Book-Form: Historians and "Primary" Documents -- Changes of Mind: Historians and Explanation-Forms in Twentieth-Century America -- Changes of Mind II: Some Strategies for Focus -- Historical Criticism and "The Strategic Journey" -- "When Prophecy Fails": Turner, Progressives, and Paradigm Strain -- A Paradigm Revolution in the Making: Parrington and the "Moments" of Lionel Trilling and Reinhold Niebuhr -- A New "Consensus" Forms: R.W.B Lewis, Perry Miller, and the Counter-Progressive Explanation |
| Subject |
United States -- Historiography.
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United States. |
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Historiography. |
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Historiography.
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États-Unis -- Historiographie. |
| ISBN |
0256014221 |
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9780256014228 |
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