American Historical Explanations : A Strategy for Grounded Inquiry

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In this new edition of American Historical Explanations,Gene Wise expands his examination of historical thinking to include the latest work in American Studies, the new social history, ethnography, and psychohistory. Wise asserts that historians address their subjects through an intervening set of a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wise, Gene
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1980.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Historiography.
United States.
United States > Historiography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In this new edition of American Historical Explanations,Gene Wise expands his examination of historical thinking to include the latest work in American Studies, the new social history, ethnography, and psychohistory. Wise asserts that historians address their subjects through an intervening set of assumptions, or what he calls ""explanation forms,"" similar to the philosophical paradigms that Thomas Kuhn has found in scientific inquiry. Through analysis of historical-cultural texts (including the work of V. L. Parrington, Lionel Trilling, and Perry Miller) he defines the forms used by several.
Physical Description:1 online resource (432 pages).
ISBN:9780816664948

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