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Gordon S. Wood

The Purpose of the Past

Reflections on the Uses of History

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Wood examines how the historian's craft has changed radically over the past 40 years. This work offers insight into what great historians do, how they can stumble, and what strains of thought have dominated the marketplace of ideas in historical scholarship.

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  • ISBN: 978-0-14-311504-5
  • EAN: 9780143115045
  • Produktnummer: 4146374
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.

Über den Autor


Gordon S. Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and professor of history emeritus at Brown University. His 1969 book, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787, received the Bancroft and John H. Dunning prizes and was nominated for the National Book Award. Wood’s 1992 book, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Emerson Prize. His 2009 book, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815, won the New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize. In 2011, Wood was awarded a National Humanities Medal by President Obama. He contributes regularly to the New Republic and the New York Review of Books.

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