Selvages and Biases: The Fabric of History in American Culture

by Michael Kammen

Book Overview

Michael Kammen here addresses three closely related themes concerning the state of historical inquiry in America--how history as a professional discipline has changed over the past century; the significance of historiography as a measure of cultural change; and the necessity for new approaches to American cultural history, and to state and local history as well.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801494044
• ISBN13: 9780801494048
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.