Some Dimensions of the American Commercial Invasion of Europe, 1871–1914: An Introductory Essay*

Matthew Simon and David E. Novack

The Journal of Economic History, 1964, vol. 24, issue 4, 591-605

Abstract: Written history abounds with colorful generalizations which can often be regarded as immovable and undying monuments to the truth. Stately, memorable, unself-conscious, their smooth surfaces and clean lines are unmarred by the asymmetry of qualification. Particularly impressive are those memorials which stand majestically on pedestals of aggregate quantitative evidence. Decomposition is then akin to deformation; iconoclasm becomes a species of philistinism. Nonetheless, although history may be considered a type of art, it is not pop art. The melancholy task of critical destruction is part of the historian's mandate.

Date: 1964
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