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Reflections on history and historians

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T change, growth, and diversification, is today troubled by increas- ing doubts about its purposes and prospects. At the end of a pe- riod in which more historians produced more research in more fields than ever before, they stand wondering where the extraordinary boom of the postwar years had led them. It seems ironic that during the long decades of genteel poverty and painful maturation, even during the terrible depres- sion of the 1930s, most of them felt confident about the future of their dis- cipline. They may not have been in agreement about the way in which the past should be perceived and interpreted, but that history was essential for an understanding of the direction and goal of society seemed beyond dis- pute. Now, after all the bold ventures and exciting experiments in historical investigation of the last generation, they are less certain than ever of the importance of history for the education of the citizen, the conduct of the government, or the guidance of the community. These doubts are so pro- found and persistent as to suggest a grave crisis, the gravest perhaps since the emergence of history as an organized profession about a hundred years ago. The full dimensions of this crisis are still not clear,

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907.202 Ham r

Publisher

Madison : university of wisconsin system., 1987

Collation

266 pages

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-299-10930-5

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907.202

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HISTORY

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