History and American society: essays of David M. Potter.
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| Language: | English |
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New York, Oxford University Press,
1973
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| Physical Description: | x, 422 p. 22 cm |
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| Bibliography: | General Note: Includes bibliographical references. 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 |