AMERICAN PROGRESSIVE HISTORY: An Experiment In Modernization

tan full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). no dustwrapper. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. old name blacked out with magic marker on front flyleaf, otherwise contents free of markings. nice copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no notes or underlining, no remainder markings. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). ix+257p. endnotes. bibliography. index. american history. political science. biography. political philosophy. james harvey robinson. charles beard. carl becker. harry elmer barnes. vernon parrington. ~" The central purpose of this account is the presentation of Progressive history as an important experiment in the theory of history, although no pretense is made that Progressive history was more than a loosely knit school of thought with a tolerably coherent web of explanatory themes. Each of the founding scholars contributed to it according to his interests and inclinations. James Harvey Robinson, Charles Beard, and Carl Becker are in the focus of this book. Next to them Vernon Parrington and Harry Elmer Barnes played subsidiary roles, not quite founders and not yet epigones. Turner is included be cause he and the Progressive historians were the outstanding American representatives of the contemporary international search for a New History appropriate to the modern age. Because of that kinship, Turner's work offers an especially instructive contrast and parallel to that of the Progressive historians.".…