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Allan Nevins on history
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Allan Nevins on history / compiled and introduced by Ray Allen Billington.
ISBN
9780684143200
0684143208
Published
New York : Scribner, c1975.
Physical Description
xxvii, 420 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Other formats
Online version: Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971. Allan Nevins on history. New York : Scribner, [1975]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 09, 2015
Contents
Allan Nevins, historian: a personal reminiscence / by Ray Allen Billington
PART ONE: THE PURPOSE OF HISTORY: What's the matter with history
Not Capulets, nor Montagus
The newspaperman and the scholar
Reading in a book-crowded age
PART TWO: BROADENING HISTORICAL HORRIZONS: New lamps for old in history
Business and the historian
American journalism and its historical treatment
Recent progress of American social history
The universal and the local
PART THREE: THE HISTORIAN AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: What the scientist and historian can teach each other
Advances in the social sciences
The explosive excitement of history
Is history made by heroes?
The old history and the new
The limits of individualism
PART FOUR: TOOLS FOR THE HISTORIAN'S KITBAG: The essence of biography
The autobiography
Why public men keep diaries
The role of the manuscript collection
History and the newspaper
History this side the horizon
Oral history: how and why it was done
A new horizon for who's who: a proposal
PART FIVE: GREAT HISTORIANS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: George Bancroft
John Lothrop Motley
Francis Parkman
Hermann Eduard von Holst
John Bach McMaster
Henry Adams
James Ford Rhodes as man and historian.
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