02481nam 2200577 a 450 991045412160332120200520144314.00-8166-6494-3(CKB)1000000000689952(EBL)345490(OCoLC)437212116(SSID)ssj0000102126(PQKBManifestationID)11124559(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102126(PQKBWorkID)10048882(PQKB)11368630(MiAaPQ)EBC345490(OCoLC)568397431(MdBmJHUP)muse38767(Au-PeEL)EBL345490(CaPaEBR)ebr10231097(CaONFJC)MIL522952(EXLCZ)99100000000068995219800529d1980 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican historical explanations[electronic resource] a strategy for grounded inquiry /Gene Wise2d ed., rev.Minneapolis University of Minnesotac19801 online resource (430 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-0957-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 HistoriographyUnited StatesHistoriographyElectronic books.Historiography.973/.072Wise Gene950951MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454121603321American historical explanations2149910UNINA