The plain and noble garb of truth
Subtitle: nationalism and impartiality in American historical writing, 1784-1860
By: Eileen Ka-May Cheng.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press; Brand: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780820330730
Subjects: Historiography -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Historiography -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Historiography -- Social aspects -- United States -- History; Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Fairness -- History -- 18th century; Fairness -- History -- 19th century; American literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; United States -- Historiography
Description: "American historians of the early national period, argues Eileen Ka-May Cheng, grappled with objectivity, professionalism, and other "modern" issues to a greater degree than their successors in later generations acknowledge. Her extensive readings of antebellum historians show that, by the 1820s, a small but influential group of practitioners had begun to develop many of the doctrines and concerns that undergird contemporary historical practice. The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth challenges the entrenched notion that America's first generations of historians were romantics or propagandists for a struggling young nation."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.