History's Babel : scholarship, professionalization, and the historical enterprise in the United States, 1880-1940

History's Babel : scholarship, professionalization, and the historical enterprise in the United States, 1880-1940 / Robert B. Townsend.

From the late nineteenth century until World War II, competing spheres of professional identity and practice redrew the field of history, establishing fundamental differences between the roles of university historians, archivists, staff at historical societies, history teachers, and others. In Histo...

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Main Author: Townsend, Robert B., 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Historiography > United States > History.
History > Study and teaching > United States.
Historians > United States.
HISTORY > Historiography.
Historians
Historiography
History > Study and teaching
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Building the historical enterprise, 1880 to 1910. Establishing a framework for "scientific" history scholarship ; Developing the tools and materials of history research ; Defining a profession of history teaching
  • Cracks appear in the edifice of history, 1911 to 1925. Seeking refuge in professionalized scholarship ; Placing the tools and materials of research in "other hands" ; History teaching finds its own voice
  • Scattering the historical enterprise, 1926 to 1940. The crisis of the "research men" ; Handing tools and materials over to others ; Teaching goes its own way, 1925-1940.

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