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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Costerus new series ; volume 229
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Costerus ; new ser., v. 229.
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| Summary |
"In American History in Transition Yoshinari Yamaguchi provides fresh insights into early efforts in American history writing, ranging from Jeremy Belknap's Massachusetts Historical Society to Emma Willard's geographic history and Francis Parkman's history of deep time to Henry Adams's thermodynamic history. Although not a well-organized set of professional researchers, these historians shared the same concern: the problems of temporalization and secularization in history writing. As the time-honored framework of sacred history was gradually outdated, American historians at that time turned to individual facts as possible evidence for a new generalization, and tried different "scientific" theories to give coherency to their writings. History writing was in its transitional phase, shifting from religion to science, deduction to induction, and static to dynamic worldview." |
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Introduction: America and History -- "A Republic of Letters": Organizing Historical Knowledge in Early National America -- Natural History Turned National History: Unity and Uniqueness in Jeremy Belknap's Federalist Historiography -- The Biographer's (Sub)Voice: Historical Objectivity and Interpretive Imagination in Jared Sparks's Documentary History -- American Geographic History: Visibility and Timelessness in Emma Willard's "Progressive Maps" and "History in Perspective" -- The Traveling Historian: Spatiality and Panoramic Abstraction in Francis Parkman's Writings -- Slow and Long History: Geology and the Idea of History in Nineteenth-Century America -- History in Depth: Geological Imagination and the Memories of the Landmass -- Toward the Impersonality of History: Inductive Reasoning and the Problem of the Individual in Henry Adams's Physicist History -- Conclusion: The Temporalization of American History -- A List of Characters in Jeremy Belknap, The Foresters -- Works Cited -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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United States -- Historiography.
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United States. |
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Historiography. |
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United States -- History -- Philosophy.
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History. |
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Philosophy. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: Yamaguchi, Yoshinari. American History in Transition : From Religion to Science. Boston : BRILL, ©2020 9789004424302 |
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9004424318 (electronic book) |
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9789004424319 (electronic book) |
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