J. Franklin Jameson (1859–1937)
Autor(a) de The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement
About the Author
Obras por J. Franklin Jameson
Essays in the Constitutional History of the United States in the Formative Period, 1775-1789 (American Constitutional… (1970) 2 exemplares
Essays in the constitutional history of the United States in the formative period, 1775-1789, by graduates and former… (1970) 2 exemplares
American Reference Library (6 Volumes) 1 exemplar
John Franklin Jameson and the Development of Humanistic Scholarship in America: Volume 2: The Years of Growth,… (1996) 1 exemplar
Spanish explorers in the southern United States, 1528-1543: The narrative of Alvar Nuñez… (1907) 1 exemplar
Winthrop's Journal 1630-1649 2 Volumes 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Essays in colonial history presented to Charles McLean Andrews by his students (1931) — Prefácio — 4 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Jameson, John Franklin
- Data de nascimento
- 1859-09-19
- Data de falecimento
- 1937-09-28
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Somerville, Massachusetts, USA
- Educação
- Amherst College
Johns Hopkins University (PhD | History | 1882) - Ocupações
- historian
editor
author - Organizações
- American Historical Association (president ∙ 1907)
Brown University
Membros
Críticas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 21
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 212
- Popularidade
- #104,834
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 2
- ISBN
- 28
- Línguas
- 2
Most of the greater value is due simply to rarity; there are a lot more World Almanacs around than early American books. But there is also a value to age. The World Almanac has lots of still-current information -- but it's information you already know, and you have a modern's perspective on it. Poor Richard's Almanac has information you won't instinctively know, told from the perspective of the time.
It's that different perspective that makes J. Franklin Jameson's historical dictionary so interesting. It is a good dictionary, and mostly accurate insofar as I have checked it -- but the real value lies in the fact that it sees things from the perspective of the 1890s. Civil Rights issues, e.g., are seen from a viewpoint that not only precedes Brown v. Board of Education but even Plessy v. Ferguson. Economics is seen from the perspective of a nation much more rural than today. Labor issues are very different. The list is endless.
The bottom line is that a person doing historical research will find this a very useful book. It won't be the last word on any particular topic, but it can give you insight into a period now very foreign to us. I found my copy on clearance for $2. It may be the best $2 I ever spent on a book.… (mais)