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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/178755 Title: The American historian : a social-intellectual history of the writing of the American past Author: Harvey Wish Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1960. OCLC:178755

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The American historian : a social-intellectual history of the writing of the American past

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The American historian : a social-intellectual history of the writing of the American past

Author:	Harvey Wish
Publisher:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1960.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Wish, Harvey, 1909- American historian. New York : Oxford University Press, 1960 (OCoLC)557915752 Online version: Wish, Harvey, 1909- American historian. New York : Oxford University Press, 1960 (OCoLC)609344032
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Harvey Wish Find more information about:
OCLC Number:	178755
Notes:	A survey of American historiography with an eye toward illustrating how various historians' viewpoints toward national crisis were influenced by their particular social conditioning.
Description:	viii, 366 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	From Bradford to Mather: the Puritan mission in history -- The Enlightenment: Hutchinson and the Tory emphasis -- Jared Sparks and the dominance of the Federalist-Whig historians -- Richard Hildreth, utilitarian philosopher -- George Bancroft and German idealism -- Francis Parkman and the pageant of the wilderness -- From Fiske to Gipson: the rise of colonial institutional history -- John Bach McMaster and the rise of social history -- Henry Adams and the dream of a science of history -- Turner and the moving frontier -- Von Holst to Dunning: abolitionists and revisionists (1880-1910) -- Ulrich B. Phillips and the image of the Old South -- Charles A. Beard and the economic interpretation of history -- Parrington and the rise of intellectual history -- Allan Nevins and recent historiography.
Responsibility:	Harvey Wish.

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