End of American History: Democracy, Capitalism, and the Metaphor of Two Worlds in Anglo-American Historical Writing, 1880-1980

by David W. Noble

Book Overview

Using the work of four major historians, Noble focuses on the dramatic change in historical structure and meaning that came with the collapse of the progressive paradigm and its guiding metaphor of exodus from the Old World to the New World.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816614164
• ISBN13: 9780816614165
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

an excellent source on America's global reality

This book began our American Studies graduate seminar at the U of Minnesota, taught by the author. It is a gem, a concise and yet thorough analysis, particularly in the case of post-world war II American intellectuals like Hofstadter and Niebuhr. It is a serious work of intellectual history, influenced by the ideas of William Appleman Williams, Thomas Kuhn, and Benedict Anderson, and delivers a very different conceptualization of cold war consensus historians than what most historiographies offer.