Conservatism in Transition: American Conservative Social Thought, 1860 - 1920.

It required little perceptiveness to call this a period of transition. In a sense, all periods are transitional. Seldom, however, has the transition been so pronounced and the participants so acutely aware that they were living through a transition. Prior to 1860, as Wiebe put it, Americans lived in "island communities:" small, isolated, relatively homogeneous populations comfortable in their assumptions about the world and confident of their universal applicability.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Year

1979

Author dc:creator

• Battles, Larry Patrick

• Island communities
• American intellectuals
• American thinkers
• Intellectual history

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.library.uab.edu/etd-collection/7021

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oai:digitalcommons.library.uab.edu:etd-collection-8013