Selvages & Biases: The Fabric of History in American CultureCornell University Press, 1987 - 336 էջ Winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for history, Kammen addresses three themes concerning the state of historical inquiry in America. Beginning with how history as a professional discipline has changed over the past century, the book treats the relationship of the historian's craft to American nationalism, the value of historical knowledge, and the shifting attitudes of historians toward society. Kammen appraises the significance of historiography as a measure of cultural change and shows how the past has been manipulated for social and ideological reasons, and how memories of the national and regional past have conflicted with the realities of historical experience. He also explains how traditional modes of interpreting the past have lost their cohesive force and why historians should pursue new approaches to the cultural history. ISBN 0-8014-1924-7: $24.95. |
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... present as well as the evanescent past . I can think of no bramble bush more thorny than the difficult prob- lem of relating past and present . It is not incumbent upon all historians to do so . It is more or less appropriate ...
... present as well as the evanescent past . I can think of no bramble bush more thorny than the difficult prob- lem of relating past and present . It is not incumbent upon all historians to do so . It is more or less appropriate ...
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... present . F. W. Maitland felt strongly that a historian should not be judged by the relevance of his work to his own time ; we need not investigate the past in order to serve present exigencies , even though the living might very well ...
... present . F. W. Maitland felt strongly that a historian should not be judged by the relevance of his work to his own time ; we need not investigate the past in order to serve present exigencies , even though the living might very well ...
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... present workers in the Department shall be allowed to finish their present tasks . . . but that no further work in United States history shall be undertaken . " 7 • In 1959 Lewis Mumford wrote to Waldo Frank from Amenia , 5. Moses Coit ...
... present workers in the Department shall be allowed to finish their present tasks . . . but that no further work in United States history shall be undertaken . " 7 • In 1959 Lewis Mumford wrote to Waldo Frank from Amenia , 5. Moses Coit ...
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