History and American society : essays of David M. Potter / edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher.
Material type: TextSeries: Galaxy booksPublication details: London : Oxford University Press, 1975.Description: x, 422 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 0195019598 (pbk) :
- 9780195019599 (pbk)
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books (30-Day Checkout) | Nash Library General Stacks | E175.P64 1975 | 1 | Available | 33710001144463 |
Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1973.
Includes index.
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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.