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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998. American mind. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1950 (OCoLC)565869505 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Henry Steele Commager |
| OCLC Number: | 419327 |
| Description: | ix, 476 p. : port. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | by Henry Steele Commager. |
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- United States -- Civilization.
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