American Intellectual Histories and Historians

by Robert Allen Skotheim

Book Overview

This study of American intellectual histories sketches their development from colonial chronicles to today's professional scholarship. It concentrates upon the writings of a dozen or more major historians between the late 1800's and the middle 1900's who have contributed to the study of the history of ideas in America, including Moses Coit Tyler, Edward Eggleston, Charles Beard, Carl Becker, Vernon Farrington, Merle Curti, Perry Miller, and Ralph...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069104502X
• ISBN13: 9780691045023
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.