| Description |
x, 422 pages ; 22 cm |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
National characteristics, American.
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National characteristics.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140129
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| Author |
Fehrenbacher, Don E. (Don Edward), 1920-1997.
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| LC no. |
72091008 |
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