{"product_id":"history-in-the-united-states-18001860-9781421430645","title":"History in the United States 18001860","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1970. Professor Callcott's analysis of the rise of historical consciousness in the United States from 1800 to 1860 offers a new dimension to American historiography. Other books have provided insight into the works of Bancroft, Parkman, and others, but Callcott goes beyond to explain the meaning of the past itself rather than the contributions of particular historians. As the anatomy of an idea, this is an important contribution to American intellectual history; and as a study of humans' need for the past and their use of it, it is an important contribution to American social history. The author begins by analyzing the European and Romantic background for American historical thought. He then explores the rise of historical themes in literature, education, the arts, and scholarship. By describing the type of historical subject matter, the methods of writing history, the interpretive themes historians used, and the standards by which critics judged history, Callco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. The Intellectual Origins of Romantic History\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The People Discover the Past\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. History Enters the Schools \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. The Writers of History \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. The Subject Matter of History \u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Antiquarianism in the Age of Literary History \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Methods of Historical Writing \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Interpreting the Past \u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. The Social Uses of History \u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. The Personal Uses of History \u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. History as Ultimate Reality \u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. The Decline of Romantic History \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBiographical Note \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408130351447,"sku":"9781421430645","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421430645.jpg?v=1730501695","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/history-in-the-united-states-18001860-9781421430645","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}