Author: Julian Hawthorne
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Category : United States
Languages : en
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United States from the Discovery of the North American Continent Up to the Present Time, Vol. 3
Author: Julian Hawthorne
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Category : United States
Languages : en
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Category : United States
Languages : en
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The Cambridge History of American Literature: Early national literature: pt. II. Later national literature: pt. I
Author: William Peterfield Trent
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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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
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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
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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 History of American Literature: Early national literature: pt. 2. Later national literature: pt. 1
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Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Languages : en
Pages : 682
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The United States
Author: Arthur H. Clark Company
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada
Author: Royal Society of Canada
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Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Mémoires Et Comptes Rendus de la Société Royale Du Canada
Author: Royal Society of Canada
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Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 908
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Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 908
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Bibliotheca Americana. Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books and Pamphlets Relating to America ... With a Descriptive List of the Ohio Valley Historical Series. For Sale by Robert Clarke & Co
Author: Clarke, Robert and Co
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Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Languages : en
Pages : 284
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The Journal of Education for Upper Canada
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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