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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1950.
Subjects:
United States > Civilization.
United States > Intellectual life > 1865-1918.
National characteristics, American.
United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Cultura.
Miscelanea Norte Americana (Literatura)
Américains.
États-Unis > Civilisation.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > 1865-1918.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The nineteenth-century American
  • The watershed of the nineties
  • Transition years in literature and journalism
  • John Fiske and the evolutionary philosophy
  • William James and the impact of pragmatism
  • Determinism in literature
  • The cult of the irrational
  • The traditionalists
  • Religious thought and practice
  • pt. 2. Lester Ward and the science of society
  • Thorstein Veblen and the new economics
  • The literature of revolt
  • The transition in historical literature
  • Innovators in historical interpretation: Turner, Parrington, Beard
  • Toward a new science of politics
  • The applications of political theory
  • The evolution of American law
  • Masters of the new jurisprudence: Pound and Holmes
  • Architecture and society
  • The twentieth-century American.