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

Henry Steele Commager
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  • Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • PART I
    • PREFACE (page vii)
    • I. THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN (page 3)
    • II. THE WATERSHED OF THE NINETIES (page 41)
    • III. TRANSITION YEARS IN LITERATURE AND JOURNALISM (page 55)
    • IV. JOHN FISKE AND THE EVOLUTIONARY PHILOSOPHY (page 82)
    • V. WILLIAM JAMES AND THE IMPACT OF PRAGMATISM (page 91)
    • VI. DETERMINISM IN LITERATURE (page 108)
    • VII. THE CULT OF THE IRRATIONAL (page 120)
    • VIII. THE TRADITIONALISTS (page 141)
    • IX. RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND PRACTICE (page 162)
  • PART II
    • X. LESTER WARD AND THE SCIENCE OF SOCIETY (page 199)
    • XI. THORSTEIN VEBLEN AND THE NEW ECONOMICS (page 227)
    • XII. THE LITERATURE OF REVOLT (page 247)
    • XIII. THE TRANSITION IN HISTORICAL LITERATURE (page 277)
    • XIV. INNOVATORS IN HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION: TURNER, PARRINGTON, BEARD (page 293)
    • XV. TOWARD A NEW SCIENCE OF POLITICS (page 310)
    • XVI. THE APPLICATIONS OF POLITICAL THEORY (page 336)
    • XVII. THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN LAW (page 359)
    • XVIII. MASTERS OF THE NEW JURISPRUDENCE: POUND AND HOLMES (page 374)
    • XIX. ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY (page 391)
    • XX. THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN (page 406)
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 445)
  • INDEX (page 469)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AL 24.2 (May 1952): 262-263 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2921817
AJS 56.4 (Jan. 1951): 366 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2771702
JP 47.21 (Oct. 1950): 610-613 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2021806
JSH 17.1 (Feb. 1951): 104-106 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2198368
EHR 67.265 (Oct. 1952): 621-622 http://www.jstor.org/stable/556184
MVHR 37.3 (Dec. 1950): 552-553 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1893360AHR
AHR 55.4 (Jul. 1950): 912-914 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1841198
IA 27.3 (Jul. 1951): 400-401 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2606530
JHE 22.4 (Apr. 1951): 221 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1976689
NEQ 24.2 (Jun. 1951): 267-268 http://www.jstor.org/stable/361373
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Published: 1950
Publisher: Yale University Press
Series
  • The Works of Henry Steele Commager
Subject
  • American: 1900-present
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