Writing early American history
By: Alan Taylor.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Books -- United States -- Reviews.; Historians -- United States.; Historiography -- United States.; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Historiography.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Historiography.
Genres: Reviews.
Description: "How is American history written? In a series of review essays, Alan Taylor provides his own answer to this question." "Together these reviews provide the general reader a rich introduction to their subjects. The books reviewed span an enormous range of scholarship, from popular biographies of Founding Fathers, to investigations of murders of prostitutes, to discussions of frontier technology."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.