Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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A catalogue of the books belonging to the Library company of Philadelphia
Author: Library company of Philadelphia
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Languages : en
Pages : 1150
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Languages : en
Pages : 1150
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The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth
Author: Eileen K. Cheng
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820330736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
American historians of the early national period, argues Eileen Ka-May Cheng, grappled with objectivity, professionalism, and other “modern” issues to a greater degree than their successors in later generations acknowledge. Her extensive readings of antebellum historians show that by the 1820s, a small but influential group of practitioners had begun to develop many of the doctrines and concerns that undergird contemporary historical practice. The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth challenges the entrenched notion that America’s first generations of historians were romantics or propagandists for a struggling young nation. Cheng engages with the works of well-known early national historians like George Bancroft, William Prescott, and David Ramsay; such lesser-known figures as Jared Sparks and Lorenzo Sabine; and leading political and intellectual elites of the day, including Francis Bowen and Charles Francis Adams. She shows that their work, which focused on the American Revolution, was often nuanced and surprisingly sympathetic in its treatment of American Indians and loyalists. She also demonstrates how the rise of the novel contributed to the emergence of history as an autonomous discipline, arguing that paradoxically “early national historians at once described truth in opposition to the novel and were influenced by the novel in their understanding of truth.” Modern historians should recognize that the discipline of history is itself a product of history, says Cheng. By taking seriously a group of too-often-dismissed historians, she challenges contemporary historians to examine some ahistorical aspects of the way they understand their own discipline.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820330736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
American historians of the early national period, argues Eileen Ka-May Cheng, grappled with objectivity, professionalism, and other “modern” issues to a greater degree than their successors in later generations acknowledge. Her extensive readings of antebellum historians show that by the 1820s, a small but influential group of practitioners had begun to develop many of the doctrines and concerns that undergird contemporary historical practice. The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth challenges the entrenched notion that America’s first generations of historians were romantics or propagandists for a struggling young nation. Cheng engages with the works of well-known early national historians like George Bancroft, William Prescott, and David Ramsay; such lesser-known figures as Jared Sparks and Lorenzo Sabine; and leading political and intellectual elites of the day, including Francis Bowen and Charles Francis Adams. She shows that their work, which focused on the American Revolution, was often nuanced and surprisingly sympathetic in its treatment of American Indians and loyalists. She also demonstrates how the rise of the novel contributed to the emergence of history as an autonomous discipline, arguing that paradoxically “early national historians at once described truth in opposition to the novel and were influenced by the novel in their understanding of truth.” Modern historians should recognize that the discipline of history is itself a product of history, says Cheng. By taking seriously a group of too-often-dismissed historians, she challenges contemporary historians to examine some ahistorical aspects of the way they understand their own discipline.
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada. 1759-1791
Author: Public Archives of Canada
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
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Languages : en
Pages : 1152
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
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Report of the Work of the Public Archives ...
Author: Public Archives of Canada
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Report
Author: Public Archives of Canada
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
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Report accompanied by historical documents, calendars, etc.
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
Book Description
Report accompanied by historical documents, calendars, etc.
Correspondence and Journals of Samuel Blachley Webb
Author: Samuel Blachley Webb
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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