| Description |
xiv, 500 pages ; 27 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
A memoir of nineteenth-century historian and philosopher Henry Adams in which he discusses the forces that influenced his life including, politics, religion, society, and literature. |
| Contents |
Quincy (1838-1848) Boston (1848-1854) -- Washington (1850-1854) -- Harvard College (1854-1858) -- Berlin (1858-1859) -- Rome (1859-1860) -- Treason (1860-1861) -- Diplomacy (1861) -- Foes or Friends (1862) -- Political Morality (1862) -- The Battle of the Rams (1863) -- Eccentricity (1863) -- The Perfection of Human Society (1864) -- Dilettantism (1865-1866) -- Darwinism (1867-1868) -- The Press (1868) -- President Grant (1869) -- Free Fight (1869-1870) -- Chaos (1870) -- Failure (1871) -- Twenty Years After (1892) -- Chicago (1893) -- Silence (1894-1898) -- Indian Summer (1898-1899) -- The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900) -- Twilight (1901) -- Teufelsdröckh (1901) -- The Height of Knowledge (1902) -- A Kinetic Theory of History (1902) -- Vis Inertiae (1903) -- The Grammar of Science (1903) -- Vis Nova (1904) -- A Dynamic Theory of History (1904) -- A Law of Acceleration (1904) -- Nunc Age (1905) -- App. The 1916 Emergency "Editor's Preface." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Adams, Henry, 1838-1918.
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Historians -- United States -- Biography.
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Adams, Henry, 1838-1918. (OCoLC)fst00049713
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Historians. (OCoLC)fst00957686
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographie.
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| Added Author |
Chalfant, Edward, 1921-
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Wright, Conrad Edick.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Adams, Henry, 1838-1918. Education of Henry Adams. Boston : Massachusetts Historical Society ; Charlottesville : Distributed by the University of Virginia Press, 2007 (OCoLC)652200483 |
| ISBN |
9780934909914 (hardcover) |
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0934909911 (hardcover) |
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9780934909938 (paperback) |
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0934909938 (paperback) |
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