History's Babel: Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880-1940 by Robert B. Townsend

History's Babel: Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880-1940

Robert B. Townsend

272 pages hardcover 2012

3 editions

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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From the late nineteenth century until World War II, competing spheres of professional identity and practice redrew the field of history, establishing fundamental differences between the roles of university historians, archivists, staff at histori...

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