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History's Babel, scholarship, professionalization, and the historical enterprise in the United States, 1880-1940, Robert B. Townsend

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History's Babel, scholarship, professionalization, and the historical enterprise in the United States, 1880-1940, Robert B. Townsend

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-251) and index

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illustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

History's Babel

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electronic resource

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bibliographydictionaries

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819816767

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Robert B. Townsend

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ProQuest Ebook Central

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scholarship, professionalization, and the historical enterprise in the United States, 1880-1940

Table Of Contents

Building the historical enterprise, 1880 to 1910. Establishing a framework for "scientific" history scholarship ; Developing the tools and materials of history research ; Defining a profession of history teaching -- Cracks appear in the edifice of history, 1911 to 1925. Seeking refuge in professionalized scholarship ; Placing the tools and materials of research in "other hands" ; History teaching finds its own voice -- Scattering the historical enterprise, 1926 to 1940. The crisis of the "research men" ; Handing tools and materials over to others ; Teaching goes its own way, 1925-1940

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