Past Imperfect: Alternative Essays in American History. from reconstruction to the presentBlanche Wiesen Cook, Alice Kessler-Harris, Ronald Radosh Knopf, 1973 - 352 pages |
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... facts for their own sake . All the rest , they insist , is propaganda . The notion that the historian is merely an instrument through which objective or " real " facts are supposed to pass untouched remains popular - and many scholars ...
... facts for their own sake . All the rest , they insist , is propaganda . The notion that the historian is merely an instrument through which objective or " real " facts are supposed to pass untouched remains popular - and many scholars ...
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... fact , " he lectured Boston real estate men in January , 1912 , " that you do not make governments by theories ? You accommodate theories to the circumstances . Theories are generalizations from the facts . The facts do not spring out ...
... fact , " he lectured Boston real estate men in January , 1912 , " that you do not make governments by theories ? You accommodate theories to the circumstances . Theories are generalizations from the facts . The facts do not spring out ...
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... fact of immigrant exploitation , it was all too easy a rationale for developing a self - incriminating procedure . The hypocrisy and smugness implicit in this stereotype were depicted in a bureau memorandum of 1910 . " The reason for ...
... fact of immigrant exploitation , it was all too easy a rationale for developing a self - incriminating procedure . The hypocrisy and smugness implicit in this stereotype were depicted in a bureau memorandum of 1910 . " The reason for ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Origins of American Imperialism | 65 |
The Seventh Power ERNEST R MAY 68 Why the United States Went | 92 |
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