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American History in Transition - From Religion to Science

English · Hardback

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In American History in Transition, Yoshinari Yamaguchi provides fresh insights into early efforts in American history writing, ranging from Jeremy Belknap's Massachusetts Historical Society to Emma Willard's geographic history and Francis Parkman's history of deep time to Henry Adams's thermodynamic history. Although not a well-organized set of professional researchers, these historians shared the same concern: the problems of temporalization and secularization in history writing.
As the time-honored framework of sacred history was gradually outdated, American historians at that time turned to individual facts as possible evidence for a new generalization, and tried different "scientific" theories to give coherency to their writings. History writing was in its transitional phase, shifting from religion to science, deduction to induction, and static to dynamic worldview.

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Yoshinari Yamaguchi, Ph.D. (University of Tsukuba, 2016), is Associate Professor of American literature at Kanazawa University. His research interest is the making of America and its literature during the early national era.

Product details

Authors Yoshinari Yamaguchi
Publisher Brill
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 05.03.2020
 
EAN 9789004424302
ISBN 978-90-04-42430-2
No. of pages 248
Dimensions 155 mm x 235 mm x 16 mm
Weight 496 g
Series Costerus New
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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