9780806110783 - Historical Thought in America: Postwar Patterns. di Donovan, Timothy Paul (1 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW. Dark blue linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG; Strong & sound, price clipped w/small loss to mid lower front. Intellectual history. Historiography. Reassessment of fundamental philosophical precepts of American historiography after World War II. Atomic devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki challeged notions of history's linear progression towards "continuous improvement of men's morality and human condition." 8 chapters: Introduction; 2, Historian, History, & the World Crisis; 3, The Historical Function; 4, The Individual Among Historians; 5, Causality: Continuity & Contingency; 6, History & Metahistory; 7, The Perfect Historian; and, 8, Redefining History.