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A Century of American Historiography
Editor James M. Banner, Jr. has compiled a collection of 15 historiographical essays by respected scholars to provide an up-to-date overview of major topics in American History. Each essay offers a concise and insightful assessment of a central field such as religious history, women’s history, cultural history, military history, and the history of ethnicity and migrat...more
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
December 14th 2009
by Bedford/St. Martin's
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As a brief history of, well, history, it serves its purpose. Not necessarily a fun read, but there are interesting facts about how historians have done their jobs over the years and the different ways that history can be written about the same events.
I felt this book was pretty redundant. Lesson learned: history today is not the same as history a 100 years ago because people are not the same as they were 100 years ago.
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