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The Lincoln Theme and American National Historiography: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on 19 November 1947
Excerpt from The Lincoln Theme and American National An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on 19 November 1947
This point would seem less significant in actuality, I suppose, than it does nominally, especially when one considers how much the historical literature of Great Britain would be impoverished without the scholarship of Oxford, but even as a nominal arrangement, it still seems paradoxical that the only nation whose history monopolizes a professorship at Oxford is not the British nation, and that for an alien appointee you sanction a nationalistic preoccupation which is not accorded to any national citizen.
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This point would seem less significant in actuality, I suppose, than it does nominally, especially when one considers how much the historical literature of Great Britain would be impoverished without the scholarship of Oxford, but even as a nominal arrangement, it still seems paradoxical that the only nation whose history monopolizes a professorship at Oxford is not the British nation, and that for an alien appointee you sanction a nationalistic preoccupation which is not accorded to any national citizen.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
32 pages, Hardcover
Published January 28, 2019
About the author
David Morris Potter
46 books5 followersDavid Morris Potter was an American historian of the South.
Potter posthumously won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for History
His most famous work was published posthumously.
*Do not rely on publication date vs. date of death for correct attribution.
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