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The American mind : an interpretation of American thought and character since the 1880's / by Henry Steele Commager.
LIBRA E169.1 .C673
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Civilization.
- United States.
- Civilization.
- United States--Intellectual life--1865-1918.
- Intellectual life.
- National characteristics, American.
- United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
- United States--Intellectual life.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gunn, William Lee (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- ix, 476 pages : portrait ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 1950.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-467).
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has signature of William Lee Gunn on front pastedown.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998. American mind.
- OCLC:
- 419327
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