Charles Austin Beard: The Return of the Master Historian of American Imperialism

by Richard Drake

Book Overview

Richard Drake presents a new interpretation of Charles Austin Beard's life and work. The foremost American historian and a leading public intellectual in the first half of the twentieth century, Beard participated actively in the debates about American politics and foreign policy surrounding the two world wars. In a radical change of critical focus, Charles Austin Beard places the European dimension of Beard's thought at the center,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150171516X
• ISBN13: 9781501715167
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher