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Feb 13, 2020 · Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-480) and indexes. Part I. European social science in antebellum America. 1. The discovery of modernity -- 2. The American exceptionalist vision -- Part II.
Professor Ross shows how each of the social science disciplines, while developing their inherited intellectual traditions, responded to change in historical consciousness, political needs, professional structures, and the conceptions of science available to them.
- Dorothy Ross
- 1990
Dorothy Ross argues that recent historians have emphasized Abraham Lincoln’s opposition to slavery to the neglect of his ardent nationalism.
Since this structural feature of American political culture was itself a part of history, I indicate how changes in historical consciousness and politics led American social scientists to reformulate exceptionalism and their disciplines.
- Dorothy Ross
- 1993
AHR Roundtable. American Modernities, Past and Present. DOROTHY ROSS. In the historical narratives that nations write for themselves, of modernity is a crucial component of identity. In the United. of the world, the construction of a national self-conception was Eurocentric character of modernity.
The origins of American social science. by. Ross, Dorothy. Publication date. 1991. Topics. Social sciences -- United States -- History, Economics -- United States -- History, Sociology -- United States -- History, Political science -- United States -- History. Publisher.
DOROTHY ROSS. IN HIS CLASSIC STUDY of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century in America, Morton White suggested that Progressives were the to take seriously the idea that society must be understood as a product of continuous historical change. This understanding of history, he noted, came late to America.
