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Charles Austin Beard : the return of the master historian of American imperialism
\"In the face of the ruinous costs of empire, about which Charles Austin Beard warned at the time of the Second World War, the life and work of this American prophet merit reexamination today\"-- Provided by publisher.
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F. J. E. Woodbridge in the Context of American Historiography
This paper offers a contextual and philosophical analysis of Woodbridge's 1916 The Purpose of History . It is maintained that Woodbridge's treatise can be fruitfully situated in a series of early twentieth century American historiographical debates. More specifically, Woodbridge's take on the writing of history is allied with the views of prominent 'New Historians', namely Frederick Jackson Turner, Carl Becker, Charles Beard, and James Harvey Robinson. Like his historian peers, Woodbridge emphasised the selectivity (or relativity) of historical practice, whilst simultaneously affirming history's 'scientific' status and social utility. If Woodbridge innovated, then it was due to his careful examination of the truth-aptness of historical claims and his detailed articulation and systematic defence of a properly pluralistic historiography.
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Building a Workers' Republic: Charles A. Beard's Critique of Liberalism in the 1930s
Charles Beard's sympathizers have correctly dismissed conservative claims that he was a Marxist, but they have often substituted the equally misleading claim that he was a forebearer of mainstream liberalism in the post-New Deal United States. In the 1930s Beard developed a blueprint for a \"workers' republic\" that went far beyond the bounds of welfare liberalism or New Deal economic policy. Beard's proposals for constitutional reform envision a post-capitalist economic republic anchored in the creation of new forms of social property, the adjustment and redefinition of other property rights, and a mix of expert planning and political accountability that would maintain economic and political democracy.
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Charles Beard and the Constitution
\"One could almost use the word momentous, or the word epoch-making though epoch-ending might be more to the point ... I don't see how anyone henceforth can repeat the old cliches which Beard put into circulation forty years ago.\"—Frederick B. Tolles, Swarthmore College.
\"American historians, particularly those who have given lectures or written books based on the Beard thesis, ignore Brown's book at their peril.\"—American Historical Review.
Originally published in 1956.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Charles A. Beard's Vision of Government
Charles A. Beard's trajectory as a political scientist and expert on municipal government has not yet been fully examined. Based on a close analysis of his teaching at Columbia University and his contributions to city government in New York and Tokyo, this article outlines the development of Beard's vision of American democracy. It argues that, unlike most progressives, Beard refrained from endorsing direct democracy measures as a blueprint for reform, focusing instead on streamlining the American system of government to incorporate, in a transparent fashion, both political parties and interest groups. This article showcases Beard's conception of politics and explains how pluralism and functionalism underpinned his proposals for efficient government.
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Reflections on Hofstadter’s The American Political Tradition
Richard Hofstadter’s The American Political Tradition (1948) depends for its reputation on the author’s rich historiographical heritage, including the progressive vision of Charles Beard, a somewhat detached and ironic vision of America also shared with his friend, C. Vann Woodward, and the literary and intellectual traditions of his own time, running from Marx to Mencken. Hofstadter by no means spared American icons such as Jefferson, TR, Wilson and FDR; even Lincoln was treated the gloves off rather than on. Hofstadter was often at his best with marginal and dissenting figures such as Wendell Phillips and John C. Calhoun, but he treated the mixing of religion and politics, along with America's celebration of itself with considerable. Finally, though The American Political Tradition still repays study, including close re-reading, it also demands to be historicized and understood in its own context.
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The Not-So-Strange Career of Charles Beard
Charles Beard's legacy as a founder of the economic approach to the history of American foreign relations was undermined by his last work, in particular by the two strange books he wrote after World War II about Franklin Roosevelt and the coming of the war. Craig discusses the influences that might have led Beard to shelf his overarching economic approach, pay little attention to the burgeoning Cold War, and dedicate himself so single-mindedly to the subject of Roosevelt's abuse of power.
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Charles Beard and the Constitution
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Charles Beard, Properly Understood
The ways in which the US reluctantly emerged to lead the world are discussed. The pivotal point was at the end of WWII. Americans learned an important lesson--they could never again hesitate to resist aggression.
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