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The American mind: an interpretation of American thought and character since the 1880's

Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998.

Year: 1950.

Publisher: Yale University Press.

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Frontmatter

PART I

PREFACE

I. THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN

II. THE WATERSHED OF THE NINETIES

III. TRANSITION YEARS IN LITERATURE AND JOURNALISM

IV. JOHN FISKE AND THE EVOLUTIONARY PHILOSOPHY

V. WILLIAM JAMES AND THE IMPACT OF PRAGMATISM

VI. DETERMINISM IN LITERATURE

VII. THE CULT OF THE IRRATIONAL

VIII. THE TRADITIONALISTS

IX. RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND PRACTICE

PART II

X. LESTER WARD AND THE SCIENCE OF SOCIETY

XI. THORSTEIN VEBLEN AND THE NEW ECONOMICS

XII. THE LITERATURE OF REVOLT

XIII. THE TRANSITION IN HISTORICAL LITERATURE

XIV. INNOVATORS IN HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION: TURNER, PARRINGTON, BEARD

XV. TOWARD A NEW SCIENCE OF POLITICS

XVI. THE APPLICATIONS OF POLITICAL THEORY

XVII. THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN LAW

XVIII. MASTERS OF THE NEW JURISPRUDENCE: POUND AND HOLMES

XIX. ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY

XX. THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN

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Title:

The American mind : an interpretation of American thought and character since the 1880's / by Henry Steele Commager.

Author:

Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998

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The American mind : an interpretation of American thought and character since the 1880's / by Henry Steele Commager.
Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950.

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Subject Headings:

• National characteristics, American
• United States -- Civilization
• United States -- Intellectual life

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