The end of American history : democracy and capitalism, and the metaphor of two worlds in Anglo-American historical writing, 1880-1980

Using The Work Of Four Major Historians, Noble Focuses On The Dramatic Change In Historical Structure And Meaning That Came With The Collapse Of The Progressive Paradigm And Its Guiding Metaphor Of Exodus From The Old World To The New World. Ch. 1. Reformation And Renaissance: Republican Virtue And The American Promised Land -- Ch. 2. Frederick Jackson Turner And Charles Beard: International Capitalism Or International Democracy, 1880-1920 -- Ch. 3. Charles Beard: American Democracy Or International Capitalism, 1920-48 -- Ch. 4. Reinhold Niebuhr: International Marxist Democracy Or American Capitalist Democracy, 1915-55 -- Ch. 5. Richard Hofstadter: American Democracy Or American Capitalism, 1940-70 -- Ch. 6. William Appleman Williams: Universal Capitalism, Universal Marxism, Or American Democracies, 1955-80 -- Ch. 7. The 1980s And The Irony Of Progress: Limits On The Development Of Democracy, But No Limits On Economic Development. David W. Noble. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 149-160.