Historians against history : the frontier thesis and the national covenant in American historical writing since 1830 /

Professor Noble examines the basic philosophy and writing of six American historians, George Bancroft, Frederick Jacksion, Charles A. Beard, Carl Becker, Vernon Louis Parrington, and Daniel Boorstin, and finds in them a common tradition which he calls anit-historical. He argues that this viewpoint i...

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Main Author: Noble, David W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1965.
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