History's Babel
Subtitle: scholarship, professionalization, and the historical enterprise in the United States, 1880-1940
By: Robert B. Townsend
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780226923925; 9780226923932; 9780226923949
Subjects: Historiography; Study and teaching; Historians; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Building the historical enterprise, 1880 to 1910. Establishing a framework for "scientific" history scholarship ; Developing the tools and materials of history research ; Defining a profession of history teaching; title: Cracks appear in the edifice of history, 1911 to 1925. Seeking refuge in professionalized scholarship ; Placing the tools and materials of research in "other hands" ; History teaching finds its own voice; title: Scattering the historical enterprise, 1926 to 1940. The crisis of the "research men" ; Handing tools and materials over to others ; Teaching goes its own way, 1925-1940.