A restless past : history and the American public /

Distinguished historian Joyce Appleby has been at the forefront of many of the recent debates about historians and the public's history. In this engaging work, she brings together her most important reflections on the historian's craft and its importance. A Restless Past carefully examines...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Appleby, Joyce, 1929-2016
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005.
Temas:
Historiography > Social aspects > United States.
Historiography > Political aspects > United States.
Historiographie > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Historiographie > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Historiography
Historiography > Political aspects
Historiography > Social aspects
Philosophy
United States > Historiography.
United States > History > Philosophy.
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Without resolution : the Jeffersonian tension in American nationalism
  • A different kind of independence : the postwar restructuring of the historical study of early America
  • The American heritage : the heirs and the disinherited
  • Recovering America's historic diversity : beyond exceptionalism
  • The enlightenment project in a postmodernist age
  • One good turn deserves another : moving beyond the linguistic : a response to David Harlan
  • The power of history
  • Presidents, Congress, and courts : partisan passions in motion
  • The vexed story of capitalism told by American historians.

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