Theory and pratice in historical study
Subtitle: a report of the Committee on historiography.
Series: On cover: [Social science research council]  Bulletin 54. [1946]
Publisher: Social science research council
Published: 1946
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Historiography.
Table of contents: value: Foreword, by Merle Curti.; value: Grounds for a reconsideration of historiography, by C. A. Beard.; value: Controlling assumptions in the practice of American historian, by J. H. Randall, jr., and George Haines, IV.; value: What historians have said about the causes of the civil war, by H. K. Beale.  Bibliography (p. 93-102); value: Problems of terminology in historical writing: Note on the need for greater precision in the use of historical terms, by C. A. Beard.  Illustrations, by Sidney Hook.; value: Propositions.; value: Selective reading list on historiography and the philosophy of history, by Ronald Thompson.