The progressive historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington.
Type
Book
Authors
Category
Publication Year
1968
Publisher
Pages
498
Subject
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932. Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948. Parrington, Vernon Louis, 1871-1929. United States --Historiography.
Abstract
The ideas and contributions of the three major interpretative historians of the U.S. in the twentieth century.
Description
Part I. The Background -- 1. Historical Writing Before Turner -- Part II. Frederick Jackson Turner -- 2. Turner and the Western Revolt -- 3. Frontier and Section and the Usable Past -- 4. The Frontier as an Explanation -- Part III. Charles A. Beard -- 5. Beard and the Progressive Mind -- 6. The Constitution as an Economic Document -- 7. The Constitution and Political Thought -- 8. Reconsiderations -- 9. The Devil Theory of Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Part IV. V.L. Parrington -- 10. Economics and Criticism -- 11. Criticism and Political Thought -- Part V. The Aftermath -- 12. Conflict and Consensus in American History.
Biblio Notes
"Bibliographical essay": pages 467-498.
Number of Copies
1
