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History's memory : writing America's past, 1880-1980 / Ellen Fitzpatrick.
De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fitzpatrick, Ellen F. (Ellen Frances)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historiography--Social aspects--United States.
- Historiography--Political aspects--United States.
- Historiography--United States--History--20th century.
- United States--Historiography.
- United States--History--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (333 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This reinterpretation of a century of American historical writing challenges the notion that the politics of the recent past alone explains the politics of history. Fitzpatrick offers a wise historical perspective on today's heated debates, and reclaims the long line of historians who tilled the rich and diverse soil of our past.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- CHAPTER ONE. Industrial Society and the Imperatives of Modern History
- CHAPTER TWO. Advancing a Progressive New History
- CHAPTER THREE. Native Americans and the Moral Compass of History
- CHAPTER FOUR. History, Class, and Culture between the World Wars
- CHAPTER FIVE. The Myth of Consensus History
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-303) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674036949
- 0674036948
- OCLC:
- 456250343
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