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Main currents in American thought

Contents⁠[1] [Volume Three]

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Parrington, Vernon Louis
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III. The Backwash of the Frontier—Mark Twain
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III. Changing Theory: An agricultural people changing to an urbanized people. The railways hasten economic development
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I. Winds of Economic Theory: The conscription of economics: The business man comes to the front
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II. The Conscription of Political Theory: The democratic and plutocratic trends. Development of the democratic principle vs. the cult of the Constitution. New conception of the political state
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III. [The New Ally: The courts: the police power and the fourteenth amendment; the injunction]
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IV. [Buttressing the Democratic Theory]
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1. A Democratic Economics—Henry George
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2. [Supplementing the Democratic Political Theory—Henry D. Lloyd]
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IV. The Beginnings of Criticism: The pessimists skeptical of democracy, the optimists calling for reform of the spoils system. No competent critics of industrialism
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I. The New England Conscience and Capitalism—Wendell Phillips
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II. Morality and Politics—George William Curtis
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III. English Liberalism and Politics—Edwin Lawrence Godkin and the Nation
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IV. Fiction Considers the State of the Country
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1. The Political Novel: The Gilded Age; Democracy; An American Politician
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2. [The Economic Novel: The Bread-winners]
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3. The Beginnings of the Sociological Novel: H. H. Boyesen
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I. Disintegration and Reintegration: Two forces creating a new ideology, science and the machine. The decay of the older theological, political mind, and the emergence of an urban mind

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Introduction⁠[1] Book One • Changing America