The End of American History

Democracy, Capitalism, and the Metaphor of Two Worlds in American Historical Writing, 1880–1980

David W. Noble

The End of American History

$20.00 paper
ISBN: 0-8166-1416­4
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-1416-5

 

Using the work of four major historians, Noble focuses on the dramatic change in historical structure and meaning that came with the collapse of the progressive paradigm and its guiding metaphor of exodus from the Old World to the New World.

178 pages | 1985