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xv, 280 pages ; 22 cm |
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Bibliography: pages 269-271. |
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1. Clarion call for revolution: Thomas Paine's Common sense -- 2. Way West: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's History of the expedition -- 3. Latter-day Saint: Joseph Smith's The book of Mormon -- 4. Case of the wounded stomach: William Beaumont's Experiments and observations on the gastric juice and the physiology of digestion -- 5. Wave of the future: Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America -- 6. Evangelist for public schools: Horace Mann's Annual reports -- 7. Professional homicide: Oliver Wendell Holmes' The contagiousness of puerperal fever -- 8. State versus individual: Henry David Thoreau's Resistance to civil government -- 9. Black man's Iliad: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin -- 10. American Utopia: Edward Bellamy's Looking backward, 2000-1887 -- 11. Ruling the waves: Alfred T. Mahan's The influence of sea power upon history, 1660-1783 -- 12. Receding frontier: Frederick Jackson Turner's The significance of the frontier in American history -- 13. Municipal muckraker: Lincoln Steffens' The shame of the cities -- 14. Horrors of the stockyards: Upton Sinclair's The jungle -- 15. Revolution in medical schools: Abraham Flexner's Medical education in the United States and Canada -- 16. America's most useful citizen: Jane Addams' Twenty years at Hull-House -- 17. Science of efficiency: Frederick Winslow Taylor's The principles of scientific management -- 18. Economic determinism in Philadelphia: Charles A. Beard's An economic interpretation of the Constitution of the United States -- 19. Great debunker: Henry Louis Mencken's Prejudices -- 20. Legal mind at work: Benjamin N. Cardozo's The nature of the judicial process -- 21. Venture in contemporary anthropology: Robert S. and Helen Merrell Lynd's Middletown -- 22. Nation within a nation: W.J. Cash's The mind of the South -- 23. Deed versus creed: Gunnar Mydral's An American dilemma -- 24. Private opulence and public poverty: John Kenneth Galbraith's The affluent society -- 25. Upsetting the balance of nature: Rachel Carson's Silent spring. |
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United States -- Civilization.
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Civilization. |
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