Cheng Eileen Ka May (55 results)

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Bottom corner of cover has small crease; tight, text clean. ix, 244 p., illustrated. Contents: introduction -- john winthrop and the shaping of new england history -- seeing things their way: the Lord's remembrancers and their new england histories -- thomas hutchinson: America's enlightenment historian -- women writing wars: mercy otis warren and hannah mather crocker on the American Revolution -- byles versus boston: historic houses, urban development, and the public good in an improving city -- a strange indistinctness: james grahame and antebellum new england historical writers on slavery and the American past -- a place for "colored patriiots": crispus attucks among the abolitionists, 1842-1863 -- the lessons of spain: new england intellectuals and the history of the Hispanic world, 1820-1880 -- index. Size: 10 x 7 inches. [br 21]. …

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Paperback. Condition: New. This is the essential primer on the complexities of history writing, and writing history. "What is historiography?" asked the American historian Carl Becker in 1938 and professional historians continue to argue over the meaning of the term. This book challenges the view of historiography as an esoteric subject by presenting an accessible and concise overview of the history of historical writing from the Renaissance to the present, focusing primarily on the US and Europe. Historiography plays an integral role in aiding undergraduate students to better understand the nature and purpose of historical analysis more generally by examining the many conflicting ways that historians have defined and approached history. By demonstrating how these historians have differed in both their interpretations of specific historical events and their definitions of history itself, this book conveys to students the interpretive character of history as a discipline and the way that the historian's context and subjective perspective influence his or her understanding of the past.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "What is historiography?" asked the American historian Carl Becker in 1938. Professional historians continue to argue over the meaning of the term. This book challenges the view of historiography as an esoteric subject by presenting an accessible and concise overview of the history of historical writing from the Renaissance to the present. Historiography plays an integral role in aiding undergraduate students to better understand the nature and purpose of historical analysis more generally by examining the many conflicting ways that historians have defined and approached history. By demonstrating how these historians have differed in both their interpretations of specific historical events and their definitions of history itself, this book conveys to students the interpretive character of history as a discipline and the way that the historian's context and subjective perspective influence his or her understanding of the past. A primer on the complexities of history writing, and writing history. It challenges the view of historiography as an esoteric subject by presenting an overview of the history of historical writing from the Renaissance to the present, focusing primarily on the US and Europe. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Condition: New. A primer on the complexities of history writing, and writing history. It challenges the view of historiography as an esoteric subject by presenting an overview of the history of historical writing from the Renaissance to the present, focusing primarily on the US and Europe. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 214 x 15. Weight in Grams: 352. An Introductory Guide. 200 pages. A primer on the complexities of history writing, and writing history. It challenges the view of historiography as an esoteric subject by presenting an overview of the history of historical writing from the Renaissance to the present, focusing primarily on the US and Europe. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HBAH; HBG. Dimension: 137 x 214 x 15. Weight: 350. . 2012. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . .…

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Paperback. Condition: New. American historians of the early national period, argues Eileen Ka-May Cheng, grappled with objectivity, professionalism, and other "modern" issues to a greater degree than their successors in later generations acknowledge. Her extensive readings of antebellum historians show that by the 1820s, a small but influential group of practitioners had begun to develop many of the doctrines and concerns that undergird contemporary historical practice. The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth challenges the entrenched notion that America's first generations of historians were romantics or propagandists for a struggling young nation.Cheng engages with the works of well-known early national historians like George Bancroft, William Prescott, and David Ramsay; such lesser-known figures as Jared Sparks and Lorenzo Sabine; and leading political and intellectual elites of the day, including Francis Bowen and Charles Francis Adams. She shows that their work, which focused on the American Revolution, was often nuanced and surprisingly sympathetic in its treatment of American Indians and loyalists. She also demonstrates how the rise of the novel contributed to the emergence of history as an autonomous discipline, arguing that paradoxically "early national historians at once described truth in opposition to the novel and were influenced by the novel in their understanding of truth."Modern historians should recognize that the discipline of history is itself a product of history, says Cheng. By taking seriously a group of too-often-dismissed historians, she challenges contemporary historians to examine some ahistorical aspects of the way they understand their own discipline.…

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Condition: New. A primer on the complexities of history writing, and writing history. It challenges the view of historiography as an esoteric subject by presenting an overview of the history of historical writing from the Renaissance to the present, focusing primarily on the US and Europe. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 214 x 15. Weight in Grams: 352. An Introductory Guide. 200 pages. A primer on the complexities of history writing, and writing history. It challenges the view of historiography as an esoteric subject by presenting an overview of the history of historical writing from the Renaissance to the present, focusing primarily on the US and Europe. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HBAH; HBG. Dimension: 137 x 214 x 15. Weight: 350. . 2012. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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