Study On Gge Bancroft’eors Historiography

George Bancroft (1800-1891) is a famous historian, politican and diplomat inUnited States of America in19Century. He is the first historian that has initiatedAmerica general history through the history of United States. And he is arepresentative of American romantic historians in early stage as well, enjoys thereputation of “the Father of America historigraphy”. While the research on thisAmerican early Romantic historian is not enough in our country, so I hope myreserch on Bancroft’s Historigraphy can help us know more of Bancroft’s uniqueshape of historical thought and research method, and give more attention to thehistorian.The main body of this passage dvides into four parts:Chapter one, setting downfrom the time background and learning background of George Bancroft, investigatethe affect of the two aspact whict boost the fomation of his historical idea. On thebasis of that, introduce Bancroft’s learning experience and the development of hishistorical thought. Chapter two, by means of unscrambling Bancroft’s representativework and letters and thesis, focus on the analysis of his romantic, political andreligious historical thounght. First I inspect the menifestation and the cause ofBancroft’s romantic historical thought, then discuss Bancroft’s religious historicalthounght. Afterwards analysis his political idea of hero-ism, expound his distinctivepolitical feature of advocating Jackson’s democracy. Chapter three, I attempt toexplore the details of Bancroft’s resourse origin and historical writing methods frommethodology and epistemology of historiography theory.Chapter four, I emphas onthe contrubutes and defects of Bancroft’s historiography.