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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"American intellectuals"”.
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American intellectuals and the idea of an 'Atlantic Community' c.1890-1949
… an 'Atlantic community' was developed by several intellectuals and scholars starting in the 1890s and was then re-articulated at various moments of crisis during the first half of the 20th century, each time relying on a ampler set of related assumptions. Central to early Atlanticist views was a …
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Charles Horton Cooley and the Social Gospel influence
… Horton Cooley was one of the fundamental American intellectuals of the early twentieth century, primarily due to his social theories that involved the connection between individuals and society. This thesis demonstrates this connection with the influence of the Social Gospel movement as a …
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Ibero-American intersections: constructing (trans)national imaginaries in Spain and Latin America, 1898-1938
… of Spain are provided by five Latin Americans: Rubén Darío (Nicaragua), Alfonso Reyes (Mexico), and Manuel Ugarte, Ricardo Rojas and Manuel Gálvez, all from Argentina. Spain’s newfound interest in its former colonies after 1898 was orchestrated in official circles through the ideology …
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William Small 1734-1775: Teacher, Mentor, Scientist
… that produced the steam engine. While American scholars have concentrated on Small's influence on Thomas Jefferson, British scholars have focused on Small's role in the Birmingham Lunar Society or his role in the development of the steam engine. This study examines Small's life in its …
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A congregational model for racial reconciliation in the Church
… It suggests that the ideas of four African American intellectuals and their ideologies have shaped the perspectives on race relations in the United States. Chapter 3 makes use of neuroscience research findings in helping us understand the power of memory, perception, and behavioral attitudes …
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Juggling with three identities: Ideology of Yugoslavism among the American Serbs (1900--1993)
… each wave of immigrants as Serbs, Yugoslavs and Americans. I draw upon oral histories of Serbian-American intellectuals, Serbian language newspapers in the United States, immigrant memoirs and literature, and secondary sources in both Serbian and English to document the construction and …
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Argentina in The African Diaspora: Afro-Argentine And African American Cultural Production, Race, And Nation Building in the 19th Century
… In both the U.S. and Argentina, the African American and the Afro-Argentine populations and their cultural productions were ignored and/or rejected in the construction of the discourse of national identity in the nineteenth century. My argument is, however, that their cultural productions …
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Conservatism in Transition: American Conservative Social Thought, 1860 - 1920.
… 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.