Benjamin Shambaugh and the intellectual foundations of public history [[electronic resource] /] / by Rebecca Conard

• Autore: Conard Rebecca
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Disciplina: 907.202; 973.07202; 973/.07/202
• Soggetto topico: Historians - United States; Historians - Iowa; Public history - United States; Public history - Iowa
• Soggetto geografico: United States Historiography; Iowa Historiography
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-237) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword and Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1.From the New History to Applied History; 2.A Gift of Fate; 3.The Politics of Public Institutions; 4.A Deliberate Course; 5.The Commonwealth Conference; 6.A New Deal in the Game of Life; 7.The Emergence of the Modern Public History Movement; Abbreviations and Shortened Reference; Notes; Collected Works of Benjamin Shambaugh; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Conard draws upon an unpublished, mid-1940's biography by research historian Jacob Swisher to trace the forces that shaped Shambaugh's early years, his administration of the State Historical Society of Iowa, his development of applied history and commonwealth history in the 1910's and 1920's, and the transformations in his thinking and career during the 1930's. Framing this intriguingly interwoven narrative are chapters that contextualize Shambaugh's professional development within the development of the historical profession as a whole in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and
• Titolo autorizzato: Benjamin Shambaugh and the intellectual foundations of public history
• ISBN: 1-58729-401-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777442403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II