History's Babel: Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880-1940

by Robert B. Townsend

Book Overview

From the late nineteenth century until World War II, competing spheres of professional identity and practice redrew the field of history, establishing fundamental differences between the roles of university historians, archivists, staff at historical societies, history teachers, and others. In History's Babel, Robert B. Townsend takes us from the beginning of this professional shift--when the work of history included not just original research,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226923932
• ISBN13: 9780226923932
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"