History and American society: essays of David M. Potter.

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English
Pages
422

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Table of Contents

Explicit data and implicit assumptions in historical study.
The tasks of research in American history.
History and the social sciences.
Historians and the problem of large-scale community formation.
The historians use of nationalism and vice versa.
Abundance and the Turner thesis.
C. Vann Woodward and the uses of history.
Conflict, consensus, and comity: a review of Richard Hofstadter's The progressive historians.
Roy F. Nichols and the rehabilitation of American political history.
Is America a civilization?
The quest for the national character.
American individualism in the twentieth century.
American women and the American character.
The roots of American alienation.
Rejection of the prevailing American society.
Social cohesion and the crisis of law.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
917.3/03/92
Library of Congress
E175 .P64

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 422 p.
Number of pages
422

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5307654M
Internet Archive
historyamericans0000pott_k9a9
LCCN
72091008

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