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The“New” Western History Stillborn

Historian, ISSN: 1540-6563, Vol: 57, Issue: 1, Page: 201-208
1994
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Focuses on the author's belief that the new social history is dying and that its belated offshoot, the `new' western history was stillborn. Alienation of readers as a result of the abstruse prose style used by social historians; Failure of the 1970s generation to produce narrative syntheses that the educated public can read and understand; Emphasis on the environment; Work of Progressive frontier historians.

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