American Political Tradition

Japanese: 《アメリカの政治的伝統》 - あめりかのせいじてきでんとう
American Political Tradition

…He studied at Columbia University and began teaching there in 1946. In his book The American Political Tradition (1948), he presented a new interpretation that at the root of the partisan, regional, economic, and ideological conflicts in American political history was a common ideology of "belief in property rights, economic individualism, and the value of competition," which gained him a reputation, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Reform (1955). He attempted bold interpretations by incorporating social science, especially social psychology, into his historical research, and some pointed out that his interpretations lacked empirical evidence. However, he was one of the leading figures in the American Historical Association after World War II, and many of his books and papers have been translated into Japanese, greatly influencing Japanese research into American history. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "American political tradition" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…コロンビア大学で学び,1946年より同大学で教鞭をとる。《アメリカの政治的伝統》(1948)において,アメリカ政治史上の党派的・地方的・経済的・思想的対立の底には,〈財産権,経済的個人主義,競争の価値に対する信条〉という共通のイデオロギーが存在するという新解釈を示して評判になり,《改革の時代》(1955)でピュリッツァー賞をとる。彼は歴史研究に社会科学,ことに社会心理学の方法論などをとり入れて,大胆な解釈を試み,一部からは実証性の不足を指摘されたが,第2次大戦後のアメリカ歴史学会を代表する一人であり,その著書,論文で邦訳されているものも多く,日本のアメリカ史研究にも大きな影響を与えた。…

※「《アメリカの政治的伝統》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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