The American mind
Subtitle: an interpretation of American thought and character since the 1880's
By: by Henry Steele Commager
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1954
Place of publication: New Haven, [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 476
Copyright date: 1950
Subjects: American National characteristics; Intellectual life; Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ( p. [445]-467) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1.  The nineteenth-century American; title: The watershed of the nineties; title: Transition years in literature and journalism; title: John Fiske and the evolutionary philosophy; title: William James and the impact of pragmatism; title: Determinism in literature; title: The cult of the irrational; title: The traditionalists; title: Religious thought and practice; title: pt. 2.  Lester Ward and the science of society; title: Thorstein Veblen and the new economics; title: The literature of revolt; title: The transition in historical literature; title: Innovators in historical interpretation: Turner, Parrington, Beard; title: Toward a new science of politics; title: The applications of political theory; title: The evolution of American law; title: Masters of the new jurisprudence: Pound and Holmes; title: Architecture and society; title: The twentieth-century American.