History : professional scholarship in America
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History : professional scholarship in America
（Johns Hopkins paperbacks）
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989
Updated pbk. ed
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"Originally published by Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1965"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
"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.
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I. The Historical Profession
1. Formative Years
2. Growth Since 1907
3. Distribution and Recruitment of Talene
4. The Historian and His Audience
Part II. Theory
1. Scientific History: The American Orthodoxy
2. The New History
3. Relativism
4. The Renewal of History
Part III. American History
1. The Conservation Evolutionist as Amateur
2. The Conservation Evolutionist as Professor
3. The Ascendncy of Progressive History
6. A Search for Stability
Part IV. Legacy
1. A Time of Troubles
2. Postscript: Objectivity Reexamined
Index
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