The Comparative Approach to American History

by C. Vann Woodward

2020-11-23 22:05:27

In the mid 1960s, C. Vann Woodward was asked to organize a program of broadcast lectures on US history for the Voice of America as part of a longer series designed to acquaint foreign audiences with leaders in American arts and sciences. Reasoning th... Read more
In the mid 1960s, C. Vann Woodward was asked to organize a program of broadcast lectures on US history for the Voice of America as part of a longer series designed to acquaint foreign audiences with leaders in American arts and sciences. Reasoning that a comparative approach "was peculiarly adapted to the interests and needs of foreign audiences," Woodward commissioned twenty-two noted scholars to cover classic topics in American history--the Civil War, the World Wars, slavery, immigration, and many others--but to add a comparative dimension by relating these topics to developments elsewhere in the world. The result was the 1968 Basic Books edition of The Comparative Approach to American History.
Now, three decades later, Oxford is very pleased to be reissuing this classic collection of historical essays in a paperback edition, with a new introduction by Woodward that discusses the decline and resurgence of comparative history since the 1960s. Less

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File size8.11 X 5.39 X 1.18 in
Print pages384
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date November 1, 1997
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780195112603
Natalie J. Ring is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is the author of The Problem South: Region, Empire, and the New Liberal State, 1880-1930 and co-editor of...

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