American historical explanations [[electronic resource] ] : a strategy for grounded inquiry / / Gene Wise

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782409603321
• Autore: Wise Gene
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota, c1980
• ISBN: 0-8166-6494-3
• Edizione: [2d ed., rev.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (430 p.)
• Disciplina: 973/.072
• Soggetti: Historiography; United States Historiography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: bk. 1. Encountering the forms : the idea-form, the reality-form, the book-form, historians' explanation-forms -- bk. 2. Some strategies for grounded inquiry -- bk. 3. Strategic forms in action : the case studies.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this new edition of American Historical Explanations,Gene Wise expands his examination of historical thinking to include the latest work in American Studies, the new social history, ethnography, and psychohistory. Wise asserts that historians address their subjects through an intervening set of assumptions, or what he calls ""explanation forms,"" similar to the philosophical paradigms that Thomas Kuhn has found in scientific inquiry. Through analysis of historical-cultural texts (including the work of V. L. Parrington, Lionel Trilling, and Perry Miller) he defines the forms used by several