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Showing posts with label American history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American history. Show all posts
Saturday, August 22, 2009

Romans and Barbarians in American History

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The qualities of the Roman Empire fulfilled the expectations of the ancient western mindset. First of all, slavery was the basis for economi...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Decentralization as the Remedy for Majority Faction

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In the Federalist Number 10 James Madison made his famous argument that the size of the United States would limit the extent to which a majo...
Saturday, June 13, 2009

Centralization Begets Disharmony

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One of the themes that runs through the writings of most of the Founding Fathers is opposition to political party. The opposition is found n...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Contours of American History I

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I'm almost done reading William Appleman Williams's 1961 Contours of American History . Williams is considered a New Left historian ...
Sunday, August 3, 2008

Daniel Walker Howe's Political Culture of the American Whigs

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Daniel Walker Howe. The Political Culture of the American Whigs . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1979. 404 pages. Available from Amaz...
Saturday, July 19, 2008

The Republicans' Whiggish Error

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In Louis Hartz's Liberal Tradition in America * Hartz argues that all American ideology is ultimately liberal, to include the Progressiv...
Friday, July 18, 2008

Conformity, Rigidity and Decline

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Max von Weber developed the thesis that America's Protestant roots led to a focus on capitalism because several Protestant sects view su...
Monday, May 26, 2008

The Search for Order

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Robert H. Wiebe. The Search for Order 1877-1920. New York: Hill and Wang, 1967. 333 pages. (Newer edition available from Amazon.com for $12...