American Progressive History: An Experiment in Modernization (repost)
Ernst Breisach "American Progressive History: An Experiment in Modernization"
English | 1993-06-12 | ISBN: 0226072762, 0226072770 | 268 pages | scan PDF | 28 MB
English | 1993-06-12 | ISBN: 0226072762, 0226072770 | 268 pages | scan PDF | 28 MB
American Progressive History is the first book to relate the story of Progressive history through all its transformations from its emergence in the early 1900s to its demise in the 1940s.
Focusing his account on the work of the movement's most important representatives–including Charles Beard, James Harvey Robinson, and Carl Becker–Ernst Breisach demonstrates that Progressive history is distinguished by its unique combination of beliefs in the objective reality of historical facts and its faith in the inevitability of the progress of the human race. And though he discusses at length Frederick Jackson Turner's contributions to the creation of a modern American historiography, Breisach sets him apart from the scholars who shaped Progressive history.