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Author : Herbert Butterfield
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : History
ISBN : 0393003183
Five essays on the tendency of modern historians to update other eras and on the need to recapture the concrete life of the past.
Author : Sir Herbert Butterfield
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013500393
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Transportation, Automotive
ISBN : MINN:30000007645397
Author : Daniel Walker Howe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199726578
The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of the North American continent. A panoramic narrative, What Hath God Wrought portrays revolutionary improvements in transportation and communications that accelerated the extension of the American empire. Railroads, canals, newspapers, and the telegraph dramatically lowered travel times and spurred the spread of information. These innovations prompted the emergence of mass political parties and stimulated America's economic development from an overwhelmingly rural country to a diversified economy in which commerce and industry took their place alongside agriculture. In his story, the author weaves together political and military events with social, economic, and cultural history. Howe examines the rise of Andrew Jackson and his Democratic party, but contends that John Quincy Adams and other Whigs--advocates of public education and economic integration, defenders of the rights of Indians, women, and African-Americans--were the true prophets of America's future. In addition, Howe reveals the power of religion to shape many aspects of American life during this period, including slavery and antislavery, women's rights and other reform movements, politics, education, and literature. Howe's story of American expansion culminates in the bitterly controversial but brilliantly executed war waged against Mexico to gain California and Texas for the United States. Winner of the New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize Finalist, 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction The Oxford History of the United States The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. The Atlantic Monthly has praised it as "the most distinguished series in American historical scholarship," a series that "synthesizes a generation's worth of historical inquiry and knowledge into one literally state-of-the-art book." Conceived under the general editorship of C. Vann Woodward and Richard Hofstadter, and now under the editorship of David M. Kennedy, this renowned series blends social, political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, and military history into coherent and vividly written narrative.
Author : Herbert Butterfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1521172005
From online reviews:"Easily readable in an evening and best consumed whole, Herbert Butterfield's book is a wonderful indictment of the historical meta-narratives that are typical of 'Whig' historians. He rightly cautions us away from linear, progressive, value-laden, reductionist interpretations of history toward an approach that appreciates the diversity and the meanderings of the past and one that sees the events and people of the past as they saw themselves.""A classic work in historiography. Butterfield decries the tendency of historians to interpret history as progressively cumulative in the present; or equally, to selectively use history as an ideological justification of "my views"; or finally, to anachronistically read their ideologies into the past so that its heroes were all fighting to produce the ideas they now possess. If you've ever wanted to throttle someone for claiming "all of history shows..." or if you've heard yet another sermon illustration that sounds perfectly contrived to make a point, you get the gist of this book.""This is a must-read for all historians. Butterfield presents a monumental thesis on our interpretation of history-- especially for Americans. It's a fascinating discussion of how history is written by the winners-- the protestant, liberal, democratic winners. One of my favorites."
Author : Herbert Butterfield
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Sir Herbert Butterfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Historiography
ISBN : OCLC:318934329
Author : Herbert Butterfield
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : History
ISBN : 9780684836379
From Simon & Schuster, Herbert Butterfield's The Origins of Modern Science chronicles the history of contemporary scientific theory. In The Origins of Modern Science Professor Herbert Butterfield argues that past scientific achievements cannot be viewed through the filter of 20th century eyes, but can be understood only in the historical and political context of an era.
Author : K. Sewell
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1349519782
This book examines successive stages in the development of the thought of Sir Herbert Butterfield in relation to fundamental issues in the science of history. In a carefully nuanced way it lays bare the unspoken motivations and hidden tensions in Butterfield's debate with himself and with a host of contemporary historians in the period between 1924-79.
Author : Michael Bentley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139502856
Once recalled only for The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) and Christianity and History (1949), Sir Herbert Butterfield's contribution to western culture has undergone an astonishing revaluation over the past twenty years. What has been left out of this reappraisal is the man himself. Yet the force of Butterfield's writings is weakened without some knowledge of the man behind them: his temperament, contexts and personal torments. Previous authors have been unable to supply a rounded portrait for lack of available material, particularly a dearth of sources for the crucial period before the outbreak of war in 1939. Michael Bentley's original, startling 2011 biography draws on sources never seen before. They enable him to present a new Butterfield, one deeply troubled by self-doubt, driven by an urgent sexuality and plagued by an unending tension between history, science and God in a mind as hard and cynical as it was loving and charitable.
Author : Clarisse Berthezène
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1526139375
This book examines attempts by the Conservative party in the interwar years to capture the 'brains' of the new electorate and create a counter-culture to what they saw as the intellectual hegemony of the Left. It tells the fascinating story of the Bonar Law Memorial College, Ashridge, founded in 1929 as a 'College of citizenship' to provide political education through both teaching and publications. The College aimed at creating 'Conservative Fabians' who were to publish and disseminate Conservative literature, which meant not only explicitly political works but literary, historical and cultural work that carried implicit Conservative messages. This book modifies our understanding of the history of the Conservative party and popular Conservatism, but also more generally of the history of intellectual debate in Britain. It sheds new light on the history of the 'middlebrow' and how that category became a weapon for the Conservatives.
Author : John Burrow
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375727672
Treating the practice of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the culture of the West, John Burrow magnificently brings to life and explains the distinctive qualities found in the work of historians from the ancient Egyptians and Greeks to the present. With a light step and graceful narrative, he gathers together over 2,500 years of the moments and decisions that have helped create Western identity. This unique approach is an incredible lens with which to view the past. Standing alone in its ambition, scale and fascination, Burrow's history of history is certain to stand the test of time.
Author : Daniel Walker Howe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226354798
Howe studies the American Whigs with the thoroughness so often devoted their party rivals, the Jacksonian Democrats. He shows that the Whigs were not just a temporary coalition of politicians but spokesmen for a heritage of political culture received from Anglo-American tradition and passed on, with adaptations, to the Whigs' Republican successors. He relates this culture to both the country's economic conditions and its ethnoreligious composition.
Author : J. W. Burrow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1981-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0521240794
The idea of a 'Whig interpretation' of English history incorporates the two fundamental notions of progress and continuity. The former made it possible to read English history as a 'success story', the latter endorsed a pragmatic, gradualist political style as the foundation of English freedom. Dr Burrow's book explore these ideas, and the tensions between them in studies of four major Victorian historians: Macaulay, Stubbs, Freeman and (as something of an anti type) Froude. It analyses their works in terms of their rhetorical suggestiveness as well as their explicit arguments, and attempts to place them in their cultural and historiographical context. In doing so, the book also seeks to establish the significance for the Victorians of three great crises of English history - the Norman conquest, the reformation and the revolution of the seventeenth century - and the nature and limits of the self-confidence they were able to derive from the national past. The book will interest students and teachers working on nineteenth-century English history, literature or social and political thought, the history of ideas, and legal and constitutional history. It will also be of value to the general reader interested in Victorian literature and cultural history.
Author : Robert William Fogel,Geoffrey Rudolph Elton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300032781
Compares statistical and traditional approaches to the study of history and discusses categories of evidence, standards of proof, and the proper subject matter for history.