History and American society : essays of David M. Potter
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History and American society : essays of David M. Potter
Oxford University Press, 1973
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Essays of David M. Potter
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Includes bibliographical references
Includes index
Contents of Works
- Explicit data and implicit assumptions in historical study
- The tasks of research in American history
- History and the social sciences
- Historians and the problem of large-scale community formation
- The historians use of nationalism and vice versa
- Abundance and the Turner thesis
- C. Vann Woodward and the uses of history
- Conflict, consensus, and comity: a review of Richard Hofstadter's The progressive historians
- Roy F. Nichols and the rehabilitation of American political history
- Is America a civilization?
- The quest for the national character
- American individualism in the twentieth century
- American women and the American character
- The roots of American alienation
- Rejection of the prevailing American society
- Social cohesion and the crisis of law