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... American intellectual history in the 1940's and 1950's : the American Studies movement . Institutionally , American Studies was a protest against confining specialization . Just as the New History a generation earlier had roused ...
... American intellectual history in the 1940's and 1950's : the American Studies movement . Institutionally , American Studies was a protest against confining specialization . Just as the New History a generation earlier had roused ...
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... American Studies movement provided an academic base for prosecuting more actively the search for a " usable past " that had started among liter- ary intellectuals around the time of the First World War . By involving specialists in American ...
... American Studies movement provided an academic base for prosecuting more actively the search for a " usable past " that had started among liter- ary intellectuals around the time of the First World War . By involving specialists in American ...
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... American Studies movement , which tended to envelop us in the many - layered texture of our own national experience instead of posing distinctively historical problems in a comparative context . The American Studies movement gave much ...
... American Studies movement , which tended to envelop us in the many - layered texture of our own national experience instead of posing distinctively historical problems in a comparative context . The American Studies movement gave much ...
Contents
THE SCHISM IN AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP | 3 |
Intellectual HISTORY AND ITS NEIGHBORS | 27 |
THE STUDY OF AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY | 41 |
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