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Total Pages : 12 pages
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Download or read book Main Trends of American Thought written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vernon Louis Parrington
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Total Pages : 538 pages
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Download or read book Main Currents in American Thought written by Vernon Louis Parrington and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Xavier Curran
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Total Pages : 236 pages
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Download or read book Major Trends in American Church History written by Francis Xavier Curran and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vernon Louis Parrington
Publisher : New York, Harcourt
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Main Currents in American Thought written by Vernon Louis Parrington and published by New York, Harcourt. This book was released on 1958 with total page 1436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural history begins with colonial background in 1620, progresses to romantic revolution in 1800, and ends with start of critical realism, 1860-1920.
Author : Paul V. Murphy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442215402
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book The New Era written by Paul V. Murphy and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s, Americans talked of their times as “modern,” which is to say, fundamentally different, in pace and texture, from what went before—a new era. With the end of World War I, an array of dizzying inventions and trends pushed American society from the Victorian era into modernity. The New Era provides a history of American thought and culture in the 1920s through the eyes of American intellectuals determined to move beyond an older role as gatekeepers of cultural respectability and become tribunes of openness, experimentation, and tolerance instead. Recognizing the gap between themselves and the mainstream public, younger critics alternated between expressions of disgust at American conformity and optimistic pronouncements of cultural reconstruction. The book tracks the emergence of a new generation of intellectuals who made culture the essential terrain of social and political action and who framed a new set of arguments and debates—over women’s roles, sex, mass culture, the national character, ethnic identity, race, democracy, religion, and values—that would define American public life for fifty years.
Author : Casey Nelson Blake
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442226765
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book At the Center written by Casey Nelson Blake and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when American political and cultural leaders asserted that the nation stood at “the center of world awareness,” thinkers and artists sought to understand and secure principles that lay at the center of things. From the onset of the Cold War in 1948 through 1963, they asked: What defined the essential character of “American culture”? Could permanent moral standards guide human conduct amid the flux and horrors of history? In what ways did a stable self emerge through the life cycle? Could scientific method rescue truth from error, illusion, and myth? Are there key elements to democracy, to the integrity of a society, to order in the world? Answers to such questions promised intellectual and moral stability in an age haunted by the memory of world war and the possibility of future devastation on an even greater scale. Yet other key figures rejected the search for a center, asserting that freedom lay in the dispersion of cultural energies and the plurality of American experiences. In probing the centering impulse of the era, At the Center offers a unique perspective on the United States at the pinnacle of its power.
Author : Merle Curti
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780878558797
Total Pages : 939 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (587 download)
Download or read book The Growth of American Thought written by Merle Curti and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1964 with total page 939 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a pioneer achievement upon its original publi-cation and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1944, The Growth of American Thought has won appreciative reviews and earned the highest regard among historians of the national experience. With his elaboration of the complex interrelationships between the growth of American thought and the whole American social milieu, Curti creates not only an intellectual history, but a social history of American thought.
Author : Merle Eugene Curti
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412837101
Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (371 download)
Download or read book The Growth of the American Thought written by Merle Eugene Curti and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a pioneer achievement upon its original publi-cation and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1944, The Growth of American Thought has won appreciative reviews and earned the highest regard among historians of the national experience. With his elaboration of the complex interrelationships between the growth of American thought and the whole American social milieu, Curti creates not only an intellectual history, but a social history of American thought.
Author : Benjamin I. Page
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226644804
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book The Rational Public written by Benjamin I. Page and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental study is a comprehensive critical survey of the policy preferences of the American public, and will be the definitive work on American public opinion for some time to come. Drawing on an enormous body of public opinion data, Benjamin I. Page and Robert Y. Shapiro provide the richest available portrait of the political views of Americans, from the 1930's to 1990. They not only cover all types of domestic and foreign policy issues, but also consider how opinions vary by age, gender, race, region, and the like. The authors unequivocally demonstrate that, notwithstanding fluctuations in the opinions of individuals, collective public opinion is remarkably coherent: it reflects a stable system of values shared by the majority of Americans and it responds sensitively to new events, arguments, and information reported in the mass media. While documenting some alarming case of manipulation, Page and Shapiro solidly establish the soundness and value of collective political opinion. The Rational Public provides a wealth of information about what we as a nation have wanted from government, how we have changed our minds over the years, and why. For anyone interested in the short- and long-term trends in Americans' policy preferences, or eager to learn what Americans have thought about issues ranging from racial equality to the MX missile, welfare to abortion, this book offers by far the most sophisticated and detailed treatment available.
Author : Vernon Parrington
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351305352
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America written by Vernon Parrington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This final volume of Vernon Louis Parrington's Pultzer Prize-winning study deals with the decay of romantic optimism. It shows that the cause of decay is attributed to three sources: stratifying of economics under the pressure of centralization; the rise of mechanistic science; and the emergence of a spirit of skepticism which, with teachings of the sciences and lessons of intellectuals, has resulted in the questioning of democratic ideals. Parrington presents the movement of liberalism from 1913 to 1917, and the reaction to it following World War I. He notes that liberals announced that democratic hopes had not been fulfilled; the Constitution was not a democratic instrument nor was it intended to be; and while Americans had professed to create a democracy, they had in fact created a plutocracy. Industrialization of America under the leadership of the middle class and the rise of critical attitudes towards the ideals and handiwork of that class are examined in great detail. Parrington's interpretation of the literature during this time focuses on four divisions of development: the conquest of America by the middle class; the challenge of that overlordship by democratic agrarianism; the intellectual revolution brought about by science and the appropriation of science by the middle class; and the rise of detached criticism by younger intellectuals. A new introduction by Bruce Brown highlights Parrington's life and explains the importance of this volume.
Author : Richard L. Rapson
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Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Major Interpretations of the American Past written by Richard L. Rapson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vernon Louis Parrington
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 493 pages
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Download or read book Main Currents in American Thought written by Vernon Louis Parrington and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Morris Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351532294
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book American Thought written by Morris Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What constitutes American thought is obviously too elusive to be encompassed by any one writer or group of writers. The best that any attempt at intellectual history can achieve is to indicate some of its traces in written records. This volume represents the eff orts of one of America's leading philosophers to do just that. He is uniquely qualified to do so, as his contemporary Sidney Hook well understood.As Cohen noted, most of what people say and write is dominated by linguistic forms or habits. Thus the dominance of the traditions and habits that make up the English language has been the strongest single infl uence in fashioning American thought as very largely a province of British thought - despite the Declaration of Independence and two wars. Cohen describes how American thought developed from its British roots. It deals with reflective thought, i.e. with thought that is conscious of its problems, of its methods and of the widest general bearings of the results obtained so far. The diverse subjects discussed range from religious thinking to the scientific, and from the legal tradition to literary criticism.Among the important figures Cohen assesses are Dewey, Santayana, Holmes, Brandeis, Whitehead, James, and Royce as well as those of men less well-known but sometimes equally influential. In its scope and insight, this book takes its own unique and important place in American thought.
Author : Richard Hofstadter
Publisher : Ingram
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Social Darwinism in American Thought written by Richard Hofstadter and published by Ingram. This book was released on 1959 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the impact of Darwin on thinkers throughout the gilded Age and the Progressive era, 'Social Darwinism' shows how a politically neutral scientific theory has been adapted with skillful rhetoric to contradictory purposes.
Author : Martin Halliwell
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748631321
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book American Thought and Culture in the 21st Century written by Martin Halliwell and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will the twenty-first century be the next American Century? Will American power and ideas dominate the globe in the coming years? Or is the prestige of the United States likely to crumble beneath the pressure of new international challenges? This ground-breaking book explores the changing patterns of American thought and culture at the dawn of the new millennium, when the world's richest nation has never been more powerful or more controversial. It brings together some of the most eminent North American and European thinkers to investigate the crucial issues and challenges facing the United States during the early years of our new century.From the subterranean political shifts beneath the electoral landscape to the latest biomedical advances, from the literary response to 9/11 to the rise of reality television, this book explores the political, social and cultural contours of contemporary American life - but it also places the United States within a global narrative of commerce, cultural exchange, i
Author : Frederick Mayer
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ISBN 13 : 9781258465230
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (652 download)
Download or read book A History of American Thought written by Frederick Mayer and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter V. Marsden
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400845564
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Social Trends in American Life written by Peter V. Marsden and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-26 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changes in American social attitudes and behaviors since the 1970s Social Trends in American Life assembles a team of leading researchers to provide unparalleled insight into how American social attitudes and behaviors have changed since the 1970s. Drawing on the General Social Survey—a social science project that has tracked demographic and attitudinal trends in the United States since 1972—it offers a window into diverse facets of American life, from intergroup relations to political views and orientations, social affiliations, and perceived well-being. Among the book's many important findings are the greater willingness of ordinary Americans to accord rights of free expression to unpopular groups, to endorse formal racial equality, and to accept nontraditional roles for women in the workplace, politics, and the family. Some, but not all, signs indicate that political conservatism has grown, while a few suggest that Republicans and Democrats are more polarized. Some forms of social connectedness such as neighboring have declined, as has confidence in government, while participation in organized religion has softened. Despite rising standards of living, American happiness levels have changed little, though financial and employment insecurity has risen over three decades. Social Trends in American Life provides an invaluable perspective on how Americans view their lives and their society, and on how these views have changed over the last two generations.
