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Benson J. Lossing and Historical Writing in the United States 1830-1890
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Harold E. Mahan
Book Code: GM8806
ISBN: 0-313-28806-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-28806-7
160 pages, photographs
Greenwood Press
Publication: 3/30/1996
List Price: $106.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Studies in Historiography
Series Number: 4
Reviews:
  • Benjamin J. Lossing was a self-taught editor, engraver, writer, and prolific American historian whose career spanned much of the 19th century. Once relatively popular but now almost entirely forgotten, Lossing's work was precariously located somewhere between serious schoarlship and 'popular scribbling.' Mahan's book is a welcone addition to the limited work being done on American historiography; it is a generally solid, intelligent, well-written study.
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Description: Benson J. Lossing (1813-1891), whose career as a populizer of United States history spanned nearly sixty years, is the focus of this study of the production and uses of history in nineteenth-century American culture. After an introduction on relevant theory and methodology and the background for American historical writing, nine chronological chapters trace Lossing's career from an impoverished youth in rural New York through a thirty-year sojourn in New York City and later periods of voluminous writing. A conclusion discusses how Lossing's reputation suffered after the rise of academic historians who perceived him as lacking scholarly exactitude.
Table of Contents:
  • Scribblers and Scholars: An Introduction
  • A Spark Flamed: 1813-1838
  • Historian on the Make: 1838-1841
  • A Career Revived: 1841-1848
  • From Dan to Beersheba: The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution
  • Worth a Dozen Plutarchs: The 1850s
  • Patriotic Lore: Lossing's Civil War
  • With Redoubled Efforts: 1868-1880
  • Decline and Fall: 1881-1891
  • More (or Less) Than a Historian? Lossing's Legacies
  • Bibliographic Essay
  • Index
LC Card Number: 95-35713
LCC Class: E175
Dewey Class: 973
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