History, Politics, and the American Past: Essays on Methodology

ISBN-13: 9780367857660 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 156 str.

Ari Helo

Opis

History, Politics and the American Past assesses the connection between historiography and politics in America, arguing for a distinction between the past, and the history written about it.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Breaking Away from Progressive History; 2. Bidding Farewell to Progressive Individualism; 3. Letting Go of Narrative History: The Linearity of Time in Historical Research; 4. Parting with Moralistic Historiography; 5. Doing Away With Politics in Political History; 6. Concluding Remarks: The Long Goodbye to the American Past; Select Bibliography; Index

O autorze

Ari Helo (PhD) is a Senior University Lecturer in North American Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Helo's books and scholarly articles have been published in Britain, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Russia, and the United States, including Thomas Jefferson's Ethics and the Politics of Human Progress (2014).