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ERIC Number: EJ536770
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1996
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-8762
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Prescott's Paradigm: American Historical Scholarship and the Decline of Spain. Review Article.
Kagan, Richard L.
American Historical Review, v101 n2 p423-46 Apr 1996
Examines the contribution of William Prescott's historical writing and the influence that it still exerts over Spanish historical scholarship in the United States. Prescott posited Spain as decadent, aristocratic, and consumed by social stratification and religious dogma, the antithesis of a vigorous and democratic United States. (MJP)
Descriptors: Colonialism, Content Analysis, Cultural Images, Cultural Interrelationships, Democracy, Ethnocentrism, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Historians, Historiography, Intellectual History, Nationalism, Scholarship, Social Values, Spanish Culture, Stereotypes, World History
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Spain
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