02448nam 2200565 a 450 991078240960332120230213211750.00-8166-6494-3(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 StatesHistoriographyHistoriography.973/.072Wise Gene1542910MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782409603321American historical explanations3796060UNINA