Format:
Online-Ressource (xlvii, 381 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
2d ed., rev
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780816609574
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0816609578
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0816609543
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9780816664948
Content:
In this new edition of American Historical Explanations,Gene Wise expands his examination of historical thinking to include the latest work in American Studies, the new social history, ethnography, and psychohistory. Wise asserts that historians address their subjects through an intervening set of assumptions, or what he calls ""explanation forms,"" similar to the philosophical paradigms that Thomas Kuhn has found in scientific inquiry. Through analysis of historical-cultural texts (including the work of V. L. Parrington, Lionel Trilling, and Perry Miller) he defines the forms used by several
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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bk. 1. Encountering the forms : the idea-form, the reality-form, the book-form, historians' explanation-forms -- bk. 2. Some strategies for grounded inquiry -- bk. 3. Strategic forms in action : the case studies.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816609574
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe American Historical Explanations : A Strategy for Grounded Inquiry
Language:
English
