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The Growth of American Thought

by Merle Curti

Pages: 912

Contributors: Merle Curti

Publisher: Harper & Row

Place of Publication: New York

Publication Year: 1964

Subjects: United States--Intellectual Life,United States--Civilization

Table of Contents

Title Page

Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Preface to the Second Edition

Part I the American Adaptation of the European Heritage

Chapter II Colonial Conditions Modify the Old World Heritage

Chapter III the Christian Heritage

Chapter IV the Transmission of Polite Learning and of Scientific Interests

Chapter V the Rise of the Enlightenment

Part II the Growth of Americanism

Chapter VII the Expanding Enlightenment

Chapter VIII the Conservative Reaction

Part III Patrician Leadership

Chapter X Nationalism Challenges Cosmopolitanism and Regionalism

Chapter XI the West Challenges Patrician Leadership

Part IV Democratic Upheaval

Chapter XIII the Advance of Science and Technology

Chapter XV New Goals for Democracy

Chapter XVI the Rising Tide of Patriotism and Nationalism

Part V Triumph of Nationalism in Social and Political Thought

Chapter XVIII the Thrust of the Civil War into Intellectual Life

Chapter XIX the Nature of the New Nationalism

Chapter XX Business and the Life of the Mind

Part VI the Assertion of Individualism in a Corporate Age of Applied Science

Chapter XXII Evolutionary Thought in a Utilitarian Society

Chapter XXIII Professionalization and Popularization of Learning

Chapter XXV the Conservative Defense

Part VII Optimism Encounters Diversion, Criticism, and Contraction

Chapter XXVI America Recrosses the Oceans

Chapter XXVII Prosperity, Disillusionment, Criticism

Chapter XXVIII Crisis and New Searches

Chapter XXIX American Assertions in a World of Upheaval

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