History: Professional Scholarship in America
"No one writes more thoughtfully or interestingly about the history of the profession than Higham does." - Laurence Veysey, University of California, Santa Cruz. "A classic in the field, probably the best overall picture of American historiography we have." - Richard L. Bushman, University of...
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"No one writes more thoughtfully or interestingly about the history of the profession than Higham does." - Laurence Veysey, University of California, Santa Cruz. "A classic in the field, probably the best overall picture of American historiography we have." - Richard L. Bushman, University of Delaware.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780801839528 (0801839521)
Publish date: August 1st 1989
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Novick characterizes Higham’s historiography as celebratory and Whiggish, and Higham acknowledges the validity of these points in his review of That Noble Dream. In 1965, he explains, there seemed to be something to celebrate. Who knew the profession was standing on the edge of fragmentation? Sub...
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