American Intellectual Histories and Historians

by Bloomsbury Academic

Overview

A survey of the historiography of the history of ideas in America. The opening chapter examines the treatment of ideas by pre-20th century American historians and the final chapter is devoted to new directions since the 1940's.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313201202
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/28/1978
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter, pg. i
• Preface, pg. vii
• Contents, pg. xi
• Chapter One. Early American Chroniclers and Historians, 1600's-1800's, pg. 1
• Chapter Two. The Progressive Tradition in the Twentieth Century, I, pg. 66
• Chapter Three. The Progressive Tradition, II, pg. 124
• Chapter Four. Challenges to the Progressive Tradition, pg. 173
• Chapter Five. Signs of Convergence and New Directions Since the 1940's, pg. 256
• Appendixes, pg. 289
• Index, pg. 313