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Shows that the perceived threat to history is recurrent, exaggerated, and often misunderstood. This book shows, the utility of history is a distinctive theme throughout the history of the discipline, as is the attempt to be responsive to public issues among pressure groups.

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"An indispensable record of the discipline and practice of history in the United States. By uncovering a vast range of early initiatives that historians undertook to deal with issues that included the very practice of scholarship, the appropriateness of utilizing new mass media opportunities, state funding and support, political ideology, and 'the objectivity question,' Ian Tyrrell has created a useful new history from which historians can think and act more creatively in the present." - David Thelen, Indiana University"

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/11/2005
      ISBN13: 9780226821931, 978-0226821931
      ISBN10: 0226821935

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Shows that the perceived threat to history is recurrent, exaggerated, and often misunderstood. This book shows, the utility of history is a distinctive theme throughout the history of the discipline, as is the attempt to be responsive to public issues among pressure groups.

      Trade Review
      "An indispensable record of the discipline and practice of history in the United States. By uncovering a vast range of early initiatives that historians undertook to deal with issues that included the very practice of scholarship, the appropriateness of utilizing new mass media opportunities, state funding and support, political ideology, and 'the objectivity question,' Ian Tyrrell has created a useful new history from which historians can think and act more creatively in the present." - David Thelen, Indiana University"

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