| Description |
xiii, 416 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 405-414. |
| Contents |
Introduction: House of many gables / Robert J. Brugger -- 1. Joseph and his brothers: A story of the Putnam family / Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum -- 2. Jonathan Edwards as great man: Identity, conversion, and leadership in the Great Awakening / Richard L. Bushman -- 3. American Revolution: Ideology and psychology of national liberation / Edwin G. Burrows and Michael Wallace -- 4. Politics and personality: Loyalists and revolutionaries in New York / N.E.H. Hull, Peter C. Hoffer, and Steven L. Allen -- 5. Thomas Jefferson: Self and society / Winthrop D. Jordan -- 6. Slavery and personality / Stanley M. Elkins -- 7. Control, sexual attitudes, self-mastery, and civilization: Abolitionists and the erotic South / Ronald G. Walters -- 8. Abraham Lincoln and the melodrama of the house divided / George B. Forgie -- 9. Hysterical woman: Sex roles and role conflict in nineteenth-century America / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg -- 10. Use and abuse of illness in the James family circle: A view of neurasthenia as a social phenomenon / Howard M. Feinstein -- 11. Personality and cultural history in the novel: Two American examples / Cushing Strout -- 12. Were populists irrational? / James M. Youngdale -- 13. Why America loved Teddy Roosevelt: Or, charisma is in the eyes of the beholders / Kathleen Dalton -- 14. Oedipus and America: Historical perspectives on the reception of psychoanalysis in the United States / John Demos -- 15. Nothing to fear: Notes on the life of Eleanor Roosevelt / Joan M. Erikson -- 16. Toward a psychohistorical inquiry: "Real" Richard Nixon / Bruce Mazlish -- 17. America's new survivors: Image of My Lai / Robert Jay Lifton -- 18. Narcissistic personality of our time / Christopher Lasch. |
| Subject |
United States -- Civilization -- Psychological aspects.
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United States. |
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Civilization. |
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Psychological aspects. |
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Psychohistory.
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Psychohistory. |
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Psychogeschiedenis. |
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Psychohistoire. |
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États-Unis -- Civilisation -- Aspect psychologique. |
| Added Author |
Brugger, Robert J.
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| ISBN |
0801222229 |
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080182382X (paperback) |
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9780801823824 (paperback) |
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0801223129 |
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0801823129 |
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9780801823121 |
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