HISTORICAL THOUGHT IN AMERICA : Postwar Patterns
Language: English
Published by Univ of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 1973
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- Hardcover
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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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- Title
- HISTORICAL THOUGHT IN AMERICA : Postwar Patterns
- Author
- Donovan, Timothy Paul
- Publisher
- Univ of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma
- Publication year
- 1973
- Condition
- COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0806110783
- ISBN 13
- 9780806110783
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- Seller catalogs
- History, Philosophy
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