De l'Amérique comme volonté à l'Amérique comme réalité. L'exceptionnalisme pragmatique de l'«école du consensus»

This paper aims at analyzing the return of exceptionalism in post-World WarII historiography. Defining American history as an “experience” the historians of the so-called “consensus school”, better defined as “tradition school”, reinvented the notion of “American character” through a series of trope...

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Auteur principal: Kempf, Jean
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:Français
Publié: 2001
Accès en ligne:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:This paper aims at analyzing the return of exceptionalism in post-World WarII historiography. Defining American history as an “experience” the historians of the so-called “consensus school”, better defined as “tradition school”, reinvented the notion of “American character” through a series of tropes, but most of all designed a “theory-free” conception of American history whose origins are to be found in pragmatism.