| Description |
ix, 476 pages : portrait ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [445]-467. |
| 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. |
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United States -- Civilization.
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-1918.
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National characteristics, American.
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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