History's Babel [electronic resource] : scholarship, professionalization, and the historical enterprise in the United States, 1880-1940 / Robert B. Townsend.
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TextPublication details: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.Description: xiii, 258 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification: - 907.2/073 23
- D13.5.U6 T69 2013eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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