The Growth of the American ThoughtTransaction Publishers - Всего страниц: 939 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. |
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The Old World Heritage Modified | 51 |
Diffusion of the Arts and Sciences | 75 |
The Rise of the Enlightenment | 98 |
The Revolutionary Shift in Emphasis | 123 |
The Expanding Enlightenment | 149 |
The Conservative Reaction | 178 |
The Civil War and Intellectual Life | 443 |
The Nature of the New Nationalism | 468 |
Business and the Life of the Mind | 494 |
The Delimitation of Supernaturalism | 517 |
Impact of Evolutionary Though on Society | 540 |
Scholarship and Popularization of Learning | 564 |
Formulas of Protest and Reform | 588 |
The Conservative Defense | 615 |
Patrician Direction of Thought | 205 |
Nationalism Challenges Cosmopolitanism | 225 |
The West Challenges Patrician Leadership | 250 |
New Currents of Equalitarianism | 285 |
The Advance of Science and Technology | 310 |
The Popularization of Knowledge | 335 |
New Goals for Democracy | 358 |
The Rising Tide of Patriotism and Nationalism | 387 |
Cultural Nationalism in the Old South | 417 |
America Recrosses the Oceans | 641 |
Prosperity Disillusionment Criticism | 667 |
Crisis and New Searches | 697 |
American Assertions in a World of Upheaval | 730 |
Dialogues in Our Time | 752 |
Bibliography | 795 |
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Стр. 30 - What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations.