History's Babel

Informationen zum Autor Robert B. Townsend is the deputy director of the American Historical Association! where he has worked for more than twenty years. Klappentext Drawing on extensive research among the records of the American Historical Association and a multitude of other sources! the author traces the slow fragmentation of the field from 1880 to the divisions of the 1940s manifest today in the diverse professions of academia! teaching! and public history. Zusammenfassung Drawing on extensive research among the records of the American Historical Association and a multitude of other sources! the author traces the slow fragmentation of the field from 1880 to the divisions of the 1940s manifest today in the diverse professions of academia! teaching! and public history.

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Drawing on extensive research among the records of the American Historical Association and a multitude of other sources, the author traces the slow fragmentation of the field from 1880 to the divisions of the 1940s manifest today in the diverse professions of academia, teaching, and public history.