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John William Higham (October 26, 1920 – July 26, 2003) was an American historian, scholar of American culture, historiography and ethnicity. In the 1950s he was a prominent critic of consensus history.
10 de jun. de 2009 · Higham, John, 1920-2003. Publication date 1955 Topics Immigrants, Prejudices, Prejuicios y antipatías Publisher New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English.
1 de oct. de 2003 · John Higham, a pathbreaking scholar of American culture and ethnicity and a leading critical voice in the discipline, died July 26, 2003, in Baltimore from a cerebral aneurism.
John Higham was born in New York City's borough of Queens on October 26, 1920. Growing up in an ethnically diverse community, he later recalled, sensitized him to the values of pluralism in American life.
Higham's work stands as the seminal work in the history of American nativism. The work is a careful, well-documented study of nationalism and ethnic prejudice, and chronicles...
18 de ago. de 2003 · John Higham, a cultural historian who examined the interplay of ethnic and national identity in the United States, died July 26 at his home in Baltimore. He was 82.
In his basic argument Higham anticipated the theories of the anthropologist Clifford Geertz.1 It was Geertz, whose formulations of culture would heavily influence scholars in many fields, who invested culture and cultural ideas and symbols with considerable power in their own right.
