HISTORICAL THOUGHT IN AMERICA : Postwar Patterns

Donovan, Timothy Paul

ISBN 10: 0806110783 / ISBN 13: 9780806110783

Published by Univ of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 1973

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Text/BRAND NEW. Dark blue linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG; Strong & sound, price clipped w/small loss to mid lower front. Intellectual history. Historiography. Reassessment of fundamental philosophical precepts of American historiography after World War II. Atomic devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki challeged notions of history's linear progression towards "continuous improvement of men's morality and human condition." 8 chapters: Introduction; 2, Historian, History, & the World Crisis; 3, The Historical Function; 4, The Individual Among Historians; 5, Causality: Continuity & Contingency; 6, History & Metahistory; 7, The Perfect Historian; and, 8, Redefining History.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: HISTORICAL THOUGHT IN AMERICA : Postwar Patterns
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806110783
• ISBN 13: 9780806110783
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Thus
• Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • History
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

Study of revised philosophical thinking about how to view history in the wake of World War II. Author signature to cover page. A very good hardcover copy with gilt lettering to spine. Light bumping to bottom corners. Tight binding. Solid boards. Some marking. Very good jacket in removable mylar; some chipping; tear on bottom of back flap hinge; pen bracketing to back flap. NOT ex-library. Indexed with bibliography. 181pgs. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: history; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 016462.