American historical explanations : a strategy for grounded inquiry / Gene Wise.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wise, Gene.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography.

United States--Historiography.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (430 p.)

Edition:

2d ed., rev.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota, c1980.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

bk. 1. Encountering the forms : the idea-form, the reality-form, the book-form, historians' explanation-forms

bk. 2. Some strategies for grounded inquiry

bk. 3. Strategic forms in action : the case studies.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-6494-3

OCLC:

437212116