Beyond the Frontier: The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing

by David S. Brown

Book Overview

As the world went to war in 1941, Time magazine founder Henry Luce coined a term for what was rapidly becoming the establishment view of America's role in the world: the twentieth century, he argued, was the American Century. Many of the nation's most eminent historians--nearly all of them from the East Coast--agreed with this vision and its endorsement of the vigorous use of power and persuasion to direct world affairs. But an important concentration...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226076512
• ISBN13: 9780226076515
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"