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History as romantic art : Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, and Parkman /

Study of four great American historians of the early 19th century.

Основен автор: Levin, David, 1924-
Формат: Книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1959.
Серия: Stanford studies in language and literature ; 20.
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Подобни документи: Online version:: History as romantic art: Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, and Parkman.
Съдържание:
  • pt. 1.
  • Romantic attitudes: themes and judgment:
  • The historian as romantic man of letters
  • Nature, progress, and moral judgment
  • pt. 2.
  • Conventional characters: individuals and races:
  • Representative men
  • Teutonic germs
  • Priestcraft and Catholicism
  • The infidel: vanishing races
  • pt. 3.
  • The achievement: history as romantic art:
  • The conquest of Mexico
  • The rise of the Dutch republic
  • Montcalm and Wolfe
  • Conclusion.