Main Currents in American Thought
Author | : Vernon Louis Parrington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Vernon Louis Parrington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Vernon Louis Parrington |
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Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1954 |
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Author | : Richard Hofstadter |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 2012-02-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307809609 |
Richard Hofstadter, the distinguished historian and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, brilliantly assesses the ideas and contributions of the three major American interpretive historians of the twentieth century: Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard and V.L. Parrington. These men, whose views of history were shaped in large part by the political battles of the Progressive era, provided the Progressive movement with a usable past and the American liberal mind with a historical tradition. The Progressive Historians is at once a critique of historical thought during this decisive period of American development and an account of how these three writers led American historians into the controversial political world of the twentieth century. Turner, in developing his idea that American democracy is the outcome of the experience of frontier expansion and the settlement of the West, introduced his fellow historians to a set of new concepts and methods, and in doing so doing re-drew the guidelines of American historiography. Beard insisted upon the elitist origins of the Constitution, crusaded for the economic interpretation of history, and ultimately staked his historical reputation on an isolationist view of recent American foreign policy. Parrington emphasized the moral and social functions of literature, and read the history of literature as a history of the national political mind. In recent years, the tide has run against the Progressive historians, as one specialist after another has taken issue with their interpretations. The movement of contemporary historical thought has led to a rediscovery of the complexity of the American past. Although he cannot share the faith of the Progressive historians in the sufficiency of American liberalism as a guide to the modern world, Richard Hofstadter believes we have much to learn about ourselves from a reconsideration of their insights.
Author | : Gordon K. Lewis |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803280298 |
Main Currents in Caribbean Thought probes deeply into the multicultural origins of Caribbean society, defining and tracing the evolution of the distinctive ideology that has arisen from the region’s unique historical mixture of peoples and beliefs. Among the topics that noted scholar Gordon K. Lewis covers are the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century beginnings of Caribbean thought, pro- and antislavery ideologies, the growth of Antillean nationalist and anticolonialist thought during the nineteenth century, and the development of the region’s characteristic secret religious cults from imported religions and European thought. Since its original publication in 1983, Main Currents in Caribbean Thought has remained one of the most ambitious works to date by a leader in modern Caribbean scholarship. By looking into the “Caribbean mind,” Lewis shows how European, African, and Asian ideas became creolized and Americanized, creating an entirely new ideology that continues to shape Caribbean thought and society today.
Author | : P. R. Hay |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Ecology |
ISBN | : 9780253340535 |
Topics covered include the roots of environmental philosophy; the development of ecophilosophy, deep ecology, and ecofeminism; how religion relates to environmental values; environmentalists' writings on science and epistemology; animal liberation; the role of place; the economic dimensions of environmental thought; environmental writing in various political traditions; and "green" writers' critiques of political movements. The work draws from the disciplines of philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology, and cultural studies.
Author | : Gabriel Kolko |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780394725123 |
"A major reinterpretation of the nature and uses of power and its institutions in the twentieth century, with a new epilogue"--Cover.
Author | : Irwin Shaw |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 786 |
Release | : 2000-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780226751283 |
Featuring sixty-three stories spanning five decades, this superb collection-including "Girls in Their Summer Dresses," "Sailor Off the Bremen," and "The Eighty-Yard Run"-clearly illustrates why Shaw is considered one of America's finest short-story writers.
Author | : Shamoon Zamir |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1995-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780226978536 |
Dark Voices is the first sustained examination of the intellectual formation of W. E. B. Du Bois, tracing the scholar and civil rights leader's thought from his undergraduate days in the 1880s to the 1903 publication of his masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, and offering a new reading of his work from this period. Bringing to light materials from the Du Bois archives that have not been discussed before, Shamoon Zamir explores Du Bois's deep engagement with American and European philosophy and social science. He examines the impact on Du Bois of his studies at Harvard with William James and George Santayana, and shows how the experience of post-Reconstruction racism moved Du Bois from metaphysical speculation to the more instrumentalist knowledge of history and the new discipline of sociology, as well as toward the very different kind of understanding embodied in the literary imagination. Providing a new and detailed reading of The Souls of Black Folk in comparison with Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind, Zamir challenges accounts that place Du Bois alongside Emerson and James, or characterize him as a Hegelian idealist. This reading also explores Du Bois's relationship to African American folk culture, and shows how Du Bois was able to dramatize the collapse of many of his hopes for racial justice and liberation. The first book to place The Souls of Black Folk in its intellectual context, Dark Voices is a case study of African American literary development in relation to the broader currents of European and American thought.
Author | : Leahey |
Publisher | : Pearson Education India |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2004-09 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9788131706176 |
Author | : Vernon Louis Parrington |
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Release | : 1920 |
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