biography
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Robinson, James Harvey
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| male
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| lived:
| (1863–1936)
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| biography:
| Historian, born in Bloomington, Illinois, USA. He studied at Harvard University (1887 BA;1888 MA) and received his doctorate in Germany, then taught European history at Columbia University (1895–1919), where his espousal of ‘intellectual history’ greatly influenced students of the day. He collaborated on textbooks with Charles Beard and James Breasted and helped found the New School for Social Research (1919–21). His popular Mind in the Making (1921) displays his innovative historical methodology, emphasizing the development of human understanding as opposed to conventional political and economic events. |
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