History's Babel: Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880 - 1940
Author:   Robert B. Townsend
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
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9780226923925


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   04 January 2013
Format:   Hardback
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History's Babel: Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880 - 1940


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Author:   Robert B. Townsend
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Dimensions:   Width: 1.70cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 2.30cm
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9780226923925


ISBN 10:   0226923924
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   04 January 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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"""In this impressively researched study, Robert B. Townsend conveys the intellectual energy and the distinctly American unified vision among particular historians of the time who sought a professional identity for the historical enterprise. This is an important study of the evolution of the infrastructure of the intellectual life of the nation."" (Francis X. Blouin, Jr., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)"""


In this impressively researched study, Robert B. Townsend conveys the intellectual energy and the distinctly American unified vision among particular historians of the time who sought a professional identity for the historical enterprise. This is an important study of the evolution of the infrastructure of the intellectual life of the nation. (Francis X. Blouin, Jr., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)


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Robert B. Townsend is the deputy director of the American Historical Association, where he has worked for more than twenty years.

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