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Conceptual History in the United States
A Missing "National Projec"
in Contributions to the History of Concepts
Author:
Martin J. Burke
Martin J. Burke
City University of New York MBurke1@gc.cuny.edu
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The author addresses the question of why there has been no national project on the history of political and social concepts in the United States analogous to those which have appeared in many countries in the wake of the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe, the Handbuch politisch-sozialer Grundbegriffe in Frankreich and, the Historisches Wöterbuch der Philosophie. Nevertheless, by listing and explaining how to use a number of available internet resources, the author suggests ways for scholars to develop histories of central concepts in American public discourse