The Search for a Usable Past and Other Essays in Historiography

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967.

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Hardcover. First edition. 363pp. Fine in a price clipped very good dustwrapper with some shallow chips and tears. Essays on the transformation of higher law concepts into constitutional dogma; varieties of reform movements and reformers; interchange of ideas and attitudes between the old and new world; the problems of historical judgment and the problems of writing history.

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Item #344891 The Search for a Usable Past and Other Essays in Historiography. Henry Steele COMMAGER.