History and American society: essays of David M. Potter.
By: Edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher.
Contributors: Fehrenbacher, Don Edward, 1920-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
Subjects: National characteristics, American.; United States -- Historiography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Explicit data and implicit assumptions in historical study.; value: The tasks of research in American history.; value: History and the social sciences.; value: Historians and the problem of large-scale community formation.; value: The historians use of nationalism and vice versa.; value: Abundance and the Turner thesis.; value: C. Vann Woodward and the uses of history.; value: Conflict, consensus, and comity: a review of Richard Hofstadter's The progressive historians.; value: Roy F. Nichols and the rehabilitation of American political history.; value: Is America a civilization?; value: The quest for the national character.; value: American individualism in the twentieth century.; value: American women and the American character.; value: The roots of American alienation.; value: Rejection of the prevailing American society.; value: Social cohesion and the crisis of law.