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Main currents in American thought

by Vernon Louis Parrington

Level C1 · AdvancedHistoricalPhilosophy101 chapters
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Explore the evolution of American ideas from Puritan New England through Jeffersonian agrarianism, tracing how European intellectual traditions intertwined with native aspirations to shape the nation’s political, economic, and social ideals.

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Contents

101 chapters in all. The first chapter is free to read with no account.

02Foreword
03Introduction [to Volume One: The Colonial Mind]
04Book One • Liberalism and Puritanism
05Chapter I • English Backgrounds
06Chapter II • The Transplanting of Ideas
07Chapter III • The Chief Stewards of Theocracy
08Chapter IV • The Contributions of Independency
09Chapter V • Other Dreamers in Israel
10Part Two: the Twilight of the Oligarchy • 1660–1720
11Chapter I • Samuel Sewall • Yankee
12Chapter II • The Mather Dynasty

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