Essays in American historiography
Subtitle: papers presented in honor of Allan Nevins
By: edited by Donald Sheehan & Harold C. Syrett.
Contributors: Syrett, Harold Coffin, 1913- joint ed.; Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1960
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971; United States -- Historiography
Other titles: American historiography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Populism: its significance in American history, by E. Walters.--Imperialism and racism, by J. P. Shenton.--The muckrakers: in flower and in failure, by L. Filler.--A cycle of revisionism between two wars, by H. W. Baehr.--An interpretation of Franklin D. Roosevelt, by B. Bellush.
Table of contents: title: Allan Nevins: an appreciation, by J. A. Krout.; title: Scientific history in America: eclipse of an idea, by E. N. Saveth.; title: Thoughts on the Confederacy, by R. C. Black, III.; title: Radical Reconstruction, by D. Sheehan.; title: The New South, by J. E. Cooke.; title: American historians and national politics from the Civil War to the First World War, by J. A. Rawley.; title: Reflections on urban history and urban reform, 1865-1915, by M. D. Hirsch.; title: The idea of the robber barons in American history, by H. Bridges.; title: Some aspects of European migration to the United States, by C. C. Qualey.; title: The evolution controversy, by J. A. Boromé.; title: Pragmatism in America, by S. Ratner.