Historians Against History : The Frontier Thesis and the National Covenant in American Historical Writing Since 1830
ISBN: 9780816663842
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / University of Minnesota Press
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Subjects: History;

Professor Noble examines the basic philosophy and writing of six American historians, George Bancroft, Frederick Jacksion, Charles A. Beard, Carl Becker, Vernon Louis Parrington, and Daniel Boorstin, and finds in them a common tradition which he calls anit-historical. He argues that this viewpoint is founded in the frontier interpretation of American history, that American historians have served as the chief political theorists and theologians of this country since 1830, and that their writings can be interpreted as Jeremiads designed to preserve a national covenant with nature.


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