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The Growth of American Thought

by Merle Curti. 912 pgs.

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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
CONTENTS
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Preface to the Second Edition
I. A Variety of Peoples Bequeath Legacies to the New Nation
II. Colonial Conditions Modify the Old World Heritage
III. The Christian Heritage
IV. The Transmission of Polite Learning and of Scientific Interests
V. The Rise of the Enlightenment
VI. The Revolutionary Shift in Emphasis
VII. The Expanding Enlightenment
VIII. The Conservative Reaction
IX. Patrician Direction of Thought
X. Nationalism Challenges Cosmopolitanism and Regionalism
XI. The West Challenges Patrician Leadership
XII. New Currents of Equalitarian Thought and Practice
XIII. The Advance of Science and Technology
XIV. The Popularization of Knowledge
XV. New Goals for Democracy
XVI. The Rising Tide of Patriotism and Nationalism
PART V.--TRIUMPH OF NATIONALISM IN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT
A Group of Illustrations Will Be Found Following page . 398
XVII. Cultural Regionalism in the Old South
XVIII. The Thrust of the Civil War into Intellectual Life
XIX. The Nature of the New Nationalism
XX. Business and the Life of the Mind
XXI. The Delimitation of Supernaturalism
XXII. Evolutionary Thought in a Utilitarian Society
XXIII. Professionalization and Popularization of Learning
XXIV. Formulas of Protest and Reform
XXV. The Conservative Defense
XXVI. America Recrosses the Oceans
XXVII. Prosperity, Disillusionment, Criticism
XXVIII. Crisis and New Searches
XXIX. American Assertions in a World of Upheaval
Bibliographical Note
Index
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