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Was America a mistake?: an eighteenth-century controversy

Henry Steele Commager and Elmo Giordanetti
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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • PART ONE: THE DEBATE
    • 1. "AMERICA IS DEGRADED AND DEGENERATED" (page 11)
    • 2. THE PROBLEM OF AMERICA IS REALLY THE PROBLEM OF EUROPE (page 17)
    • 3. THE DEGENERACY OF THE NEW WORLD REBOUNDED ON THE OLD (page 28)
    • 4. THE NEW WORLD FINDS DEFENDERS: IT IS THE HOPE OF THE HUMAN RACE (page 34)
  • PART TWO: THE DEBATERS
    • 1. THE COMTE DE BUFFON (page 49)
    • 2. THE ABBÉ CORNEILLE DE PAUW (page 75)
    • 3. DOM PERNETY (page 103)
    • 4. THE ABBÉ RAYNAL (page 122)
    • 5. DR. WILLIAM ROBERTSON (page 139)
    • 6. THE ABBÉ ROUBAUD (page 153)
    • 7. JOSEPH MANDRILLON (page 165)
    • 8. THE MARQUIS DE CONDORCET (page 185)
    • 9. THE MARQUIS DE CHASTELLUX (page 202)
    • 10. FRIEDRICH VON GENTZ (page 215)
  • SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 233)
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Published: c1967
Publisher: Harper
Series
  • The Works of Henry Steele Commager
Subject
  • American: General & Multiperiod
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