The Uses of history; essays in intellectual and social history. Presented to William J. Bossenbrook.

Abstract
Adam Smith and the philosophy of anti-history, by J. Weiss.
Towards a dissolution of the ontological argument, by A. C. Danto.
Romanticism, historicism, realism: toward a period concept for early 19th century intellectual history, by H. V. White.
History and humanity: the Proudhonian vision, by A. Noland.
Hintze and the legacy of Ranke, by M. Covensky.
Objections to metaphysics, by J. Cobitz.
The term expressionism in the visual arts, by V. H. Miesel.
Karl Lowith's anti-historicism, by B. Riesterer.
Antonio Gramsci; Marxism and the Italian intellectual tradition, by J. Cammett.
Traditional Chinese historiography and local histories, by E. H. Pritchard.
From principle to principal: restoration and emperorship in Japan, by H. D. Harootunian.
National development and the evolution of the legal-rational bureaucracy: the prefectural governor in Japan, 1868-1945, by B. Silberman.