History and American society: essays of David M. Potter.
By: Edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher.
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: title: Explicit data and implicit assumptions in historical study.; title: The tasks of research in American history.; title: History and the social sciences.; title: Historians and the problem of large-scale community formation.; title: The historians use of nationalism and vice versa.; title: Abundance and the Turner thesis.; title: C. Vann Woodward and the uses of history.; title: Conflict, consensus, and comity: a review of Richard Hofstadter's The progressive historians.; title: Roy F. Nichols and the rehabilitation of American political history.; title: Is America a civilization?; title: The quest for the national character.; title: American individualism in the twentieth century.; title: American women and the American character.; title: The roots of American alienation.; title: Rejection of the prevailing American society.; title: Social cohesion and the crisis of law.