Past imperfect : facts, fictions, and fraud : American history from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin

Past imperfect : facts, fictions, and fraud : American history from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin / Peter Charles Hoffer.

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Autor principal: Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944-
Format: Llibre
Idioma:English
Publicat: New York : PublicAffairs, c2004.
Edició:1st ed.
Matèries:
Bellesiles, Michael A.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns.
Ambrose, Stephen E.
Ellis, Joseph J.
Historiography > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Historiography > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Historians > United States > Biography.
Professional ethics > United States > Case studies.
United States > Historiography.
United States > History > Philosophy.
Accés en línia:Table of contents
Taula de continguts:
  • I: Facts and fictions
  • The rise of consensus history
  • Professions of history
  • The new history and its promoters
  • In the eye of the storm
  • II: Fraud
  • Falsification: the case of Michael Bellesiles
  • Plagiarism: the cases of Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Fabrication: the case of Joseph Ellis
  • The future of the past.

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