Idea of Progress in America, 1815-1860 (Studies in History, Economics and Public Law)

by Arthur A. Ekirch

Publisher: Peter Smith Publisher Inc

Written in English

Published: December 1990 Downloads: 251

Subjects:

United States - General,
History - U.S.

The Physical Object
Format	Hardcover
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL11554068M
ISBN 10	0844611700
ISBN 10	9780844611709

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Table of Contents Part 1 Part I: Introduction Chapter 2 The North American Past: Retrospect and Prospect Part 3 Part II: Colonization: ss Chapter 4 European Encounters: Discovery and Exploration Chapter 5 The Spanish Borderlands Chapter 6 France in North America Chapter 7 The Colonial Origins of Anglo-America Chapter 8 Colonial America in the Eighteenth Century Part 9 Part Price: $ The West as America, Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, – was an art exhibition organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum (then known as the National Museum of American Art, or NMAA) in Washington, D.C. in , featuring a large collection of paintings, photographs, and other visual art created during the period from to which depicted images and iconography of. The move you make in the book, and the move Baldwin eventually makes, is that there’s an idea of America defined by whiteness that simply isn’t salvageable and we’ve got to get clear about.

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Smith, Idea of progress in America, New York, AMS Press [] (OCoLC) Document Type: Book: All Authors / Contributors: Arthur Alphonse Ekirch. THE IDEA OF PROGRESS IN AMERICA AN ESSAY IN IDEAS AND METHOD * BY RUSH WELTER In an able survey of American opinion in the Middle Period, Arthur Ekirch has discussed a multiplicity of ways in which the idea of progress characterized our political and social thought between and His analysis clearly shows that both " conservatives ".

BOOK REVIEWS The Idea of Progress in America, By Arthur Alphonse Ekirch. Columbia University Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, No. (New York: Columbia University Press, Pp. Bibliog-raphy. $) This is an important work.

It contributes significantly to a larger understanding. Author of books: The Idea of Progress in America, (, intellectual history) The Decline of American Liberalism (, politics) The Civilian and the Military: A History of the American Anti-Militarist Tradition (, social studies) The American Democratic Tradition: A History (, politics) Man and Nature in America (, history)Born: The second wave of Amish immigration to North America begins.

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Senator from Virginia from to (died ) Henry Halleck, general (died Idea of Progress in America January Progress is the movement towards a refined, improved, or otherwise desired state.

In the context of progressivism, it refers to the proposition that advancements in technology, science, and social organization have Idea of Progress in America, and by extension will continue to result, in an improved human condition; the latter may happen as a result of direct human action, as in social enterprise or through.

The idea of progress from the Enlightenment to postmodernism is still very much with us. In intellectual discourse, journals, popular magazines, and radio and talk shows, the debate between those who are "progressivists" and those who are "declinists" is as spirited as it was in the late seventeenth s: Reforming America, book.

Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. In the decades before the Civil War, movements to reform Amer 3/5(2). The idea of progress presupposes that the end result is superior to the point of departure, but contemporary liberals are generally wary of expressing any sense of the superiority of the West.

While in the camps, Ekirch somehow managed to correct the page proofs of his first book, The Idea of Progress in America, – Nevertheless, it was a difficult time for him. Conscripted for hard labor—without pay and far from his family—Ekirch considered himself "a political prisoner.".

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Sprague and Wolff posit that Porter and his inventions are excluded from such images because he failed to make his mark with one transformative idea and also because he was simply awful at business. Portrays the American faith in progress from and analyzes the idea of progress in terms of the interests and groups which it served The civilian and the military by Arthur Alphonse Ekirch (Book).

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May, The End of. Tracing the opposition to the idea of progress from Rousseau through Montesquieu to Carlyle, Max Weber and G.D.H. Cole, Lasch finds much that is desirable in a turn toward moral conservatism, toward a lower-middle-class culture that features egalitarianism, workmanship and loyalty, and recognizes the danger of resentment of the material goods Reviews: Unquiet eagle; memory and desire in the idea of American freedom, Hardcover – January 1, by Fred Somkin (Author) out of 5 stars 1 rating See all formats and editionsReviews: 1.

A prolific author, Professor Ekirch wrote scores of articles and books, including the acclaimed volumes, The Decline of American Liberalism, The Idea of Progress in America –, The Civilian and the Military: A History of the American Anti-Militarist Tradition, Man and Nature in America, The American Democratic Tradition: A History.

But, generally speaking, both the left and the right still see the idea of progress as built into historical development. Marx, for instance, thought he had solved "the riddle of history". Discover Book Depository's huge selection of Arthur A Ekirch books online.

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Crisis and Leviathan. Robert Higgs. 30 May. Of course, self-described progressives would like the public to believe that their political, economic, and religious ideas have the same proven character and measurability as technological progress.“ The American Idea of Progress, –,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Soci no.

4 (10 ): –14; Nisbet, Robert, History of the Idea of Progress (New York: Basic Books, ); and Ekirch, Arthur, The Idea of Progress in America, – (New York: Columbia University Press, ).

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