#  Perspectives (1967-1986) 

 



Perspectives in American History

*"Perspectives in American History* " was published from 1967-1979, and from 1984-1986. A listing of each volume's contents appears below.

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**TABLE OF CONTENTS**  
  
**PERSPECTIVES IN AMERICAN HISTORY**  
**VOLUME I- 1967**

THE ORIGIN OF AMERICAN POLITICS  
By Bernard Bailyn

I. Sources of Political Culture  
II. The Structure of Colonial Politics  
III. The Legacy

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM: A REINTERPRETATION  
By Ernest R. May

ATTITUDE: THE HISTORY OF CONCEPT  
By Donald Fleming

Essay Reviews

UNIVERSITIES IN THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS  
By Daniel J. Boorstin  
Reviewing The Emergences of the American University  
By Laurence R. Veysey

THE ENDURANCE OF PORTRAITURE, By Neil Harris  
Reviewing The Landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church  
By Daniel C. Huntington; The Life and Works of Thomas Cole  
By Louis Legrand Noble, edited by Elliot S. Vesell;  
John Singleton Copley by J.D. Prown

THE COMMERCIAL STYLE AND THE "CHICAGO SCHOOL"  
By William H. Jordy  
Reviewing The Chicago School of Architecture by Carl Condit

THE POLITICOS RECONSIDERED, By Morton Keller  
Reviewing Politics and Power: The United States Senate,  
1869-1901 by David Rothman

TRANSATLANTIC VIEWS, By Kenneth S. Lynn  
Reviewing The Problem of Boston: Some Readings in Cultural History  
By Martin Green: The Study of the U.S.A. in British Education  
1963-64 by Jim Potter; The Reign of Wonder, Naivety and  
Reality in American Literature by Tony Tanner

THE VINLAND STORY, by J. H. Parry  
Reviewing Land Under the Pole Star by Helge Ingstad;  
The Norse Atlantic Saga by Gwyn Jones; The Vinland Map and  
The Tartar Relation by R. A. Skelton, Thomas E. Marston,  
and George D. Painter

UP FROM SLAVERY, By Stephen Thernstrom  
Reviewing Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto; Negro New York,  
1890-1930 by Gilbert Osofsky  
  
**PERSPECTIVES IN AMERICAN HISTORY**  
**VOLUME II - 1968**

THE INTELLECTUAL MIGRATION:  
EUROPE AND AMERICA, 1930-1960

1\. Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider  
By Peter Gay  
  
2\. Reminiscences  
Edited by Gertrud Weiss Szilard and Kathleen R. Winsor

3\. Émigré Physicists and the Biological Revolution  
By Donald Fleming

4\. A New Site for the Seminar: The refugees and American Physics in the Thirties  
By Charles Weiner

5\. John von Neumann, 1903-1957  
By S. Ulam, H.W. Kuhn, A.W. Tucker, and Claude E. Shannon

6\. An Episode in the History of Social Research: A Memoir  
By Paul S. Lazarsfeld

7\. Scientific Experiences of a European Scholar in America  
By T. W. Adorno  
Translated by Donald Fleming

8\. The Diaspora of Experimental Psychology:  
The Gestalltists and Others  
By Jean Matter Mandler and George Mandler

9\. The Migration of Psychoanalysis: Its impact on  
American Psychology  
By Marie Jahoda

10\. Franz Neumann Between Marxism and Liberal Democracy  
By H. Stuart Hughes

11\. Two Romanisten in America: Spitzer and Aurebach  
By Harry Levin

12\. The Aftermath of the Bauhaus in America: Gropius,  
Mies, and Breuer  
By William H. Jordy

13\. Kunstgeschichte American Style: A Study in Migration  
By Colin Eisler

14\. The Wiener Kreis in America  
by Herbert Feigl

**PERSEPECTIVES IN AMERICAN HISTORY**  
**VOLUME III- 1969**

A Transcendentalist Father: The Child-rearing Practices of Bronson Alcott  
By Charles Strickland

The "Country Boy" Myth and Its Place in American Urban Culture : The Nineteenth-Century Contribution  
By R. Richard Wohl, Edited by Moses Rischin

The Social Origins of American Leaders: The Demographic Foundations  
By P. M. G. Harris

Presidential Planning and Social Science Research: Mr. Hoover's Experts  
By Barry D. Karl

A Case for "Court Historians"  
By Ernest R. May

Essay Reviews

England and America  
By John Clive  
Reviewing American Democracy in English Politics 1815-1850  
By David Paul Crook

Church, State, Calvinism, and Conscience  
By Sydney E. Mead  
Reviewing Isaac Backus and the American Pietistic Tradition by William G.  
McLoughlin, Isaac Backus on Church, State, and Calvinism, Pamphlets,  
1754-1780 edited by William G. McLoughlin; Roger Williams, The  
Church and the State by Edmund S. Morgan

  
Slavery and Race  
By James M. McPherson  
Reviewing The Political Economy of Slavery; Studies in the Economy of the  
Slave South by Eugene Genovese; Prelude to Civil War; The Nullification  
Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836 by William W. Freehling;  
Slavery Attacked: The Abolitionist Crusade edited by John L. Thomas

The Origins of American Constitutional Thought  
By Stanley N. Katz  
Reviewing The Meaning of the Separation of Powers by W.B.Gwyn;  
Sir Francis Dashwood: An Eighteenth-Century Independen by Betty  
Kemp; The Concept of Representation By Hannah Fenichel Pitkin;  
The Origins of Political Stability: England, 1675-1725 by J. H. Plumb;  
"Machiavelli, Harrington, and English Political Ideologies in the  
Eighteenth Century" by J. G. A. Pocock, Political Representation in England  
and the Origins of the American Republic by J.R. Pole; Constitutionalism  
and the Separation of Powers by M. J. C. Vile

The Lives of Philosophers  
By Morton White  
Reviewing William James: A Biography by Gay Wilson Allen

Dewey in Process  
By Marshall J. Cohen  
Reviewing Psychology by John Dewey; Lectures in the Philosophy of  
Education : 1899 by John Dewey

  
**PERSPECTIVES IN AMERICAN HISTORY**  
**VOLUME IV- 1970**

The New History and the Ethnic Factor in American Life  
By Oscar And Mary F. Handlin

Howells in the Nineties  
By Kenneth S. Lynn

Religion and Revolution: Three Biographical Studies  
By Bernard Bailyn

The Charleston Mob and the Evolution of Popular Politics in Revolutionary South Carolina, 1765-1784  
By Pauline Maier

The American Image of Ireland: A Study of Its Early Phases  
By Owen Dudley Edwards

American Realism and the Romance of Europe: Fuller, Frederic, Harland  
By David Cheshire and Malcolm Bradbury

Revisionism and the Interpretation of Cold War Origins  
By Charles S. Maier

Cyclical, Secular, and Structural Change in American Elite Composition  
By Daniel Scott Smith

**PERSPECTIVES IN AMERICAN HISTORY**  
**VOLUME V - 1971**

LAW IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Introduction  
By Byron R. White  
Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court

Legal Elements in United States History  
By James Willard Hurst

Legal and Behavioral Perspectiveson American Vigilantism  
By Richard Maxwell Brown

Constitutional Law and the Rhetoric of Race  
By Charles A. Miller

Law and the Enforcement of Morals in Early America  
By David H. Flaherty

The Politics of Law in Colonial America: Controversies over Chancery Courts and Equity Law in the  
Eighteenth Century  
By Stanley N. Katz

The Emergence of and Instrumental Conception of American Law, 1780-1820  
By Morton J. Horwitz

The Road to Munn: Eminent Domain and the Concept of Public Purpose in the State Courts  
by Harry N. Scheiber

Two Cheers for 1870: The American Law School  
By Robert Stevens

Enmity and Amity: Law Teachers and Practitioners, 1900-1922  
by Jerold S. Auerbach

Aspects of Federal Civil Rights Enforcement: The Justice Department and the FBI, 1939-1964  
By John t. Elliff

**PERSPECTIVES IN AMERICAN HISTORY**  
**VOLUME VI- 1972**

Roots of the New Conservation Movement  
By Donald Fleming

The Faces of Lord Bute: A Visual Contribution to Anglo-American Political Ideology  
By John Brewer

Eardley-Wilmot, Britannia, and the Loyalists: A Painting by Benjamin West  
By Mary Beth Norton

Utopia for an Urban Age: Henry George, Henry Demarest Lloyd, Edward Bellamy  
By John L. Thomas

The American Revolution: The Ideology and Psychology Of National Liberation  
By Edwin G. Burrows and Michael Wallace

Native Blacks and Foreign Whites: Varying Responses to Educational Opportunity in America, 1880-1950  
By Timothy L. Smith

The Frankfurt School in Exile  
By Martin Jay

New Perspectives on Wissonian Diplomacy: The Secular Evangelism of American Political Economy  
By Samuel F. Wells, Jr.

A Further Note on the Statistics of Historical Change  
By P. M. G. Harris

**PERSPECIVES IN AMERICAN HISTORY**  
**VOLUME VII - 1973**

DISLOCATION AND EMIGRATION

The Social Background of American Immigration

The Background to Emigration from Great Britain in the Nineteenth Century  
by Maldwyn A. Jones  
University College, University of London

Scottish Emigration: The Social Impact of Agrarian Change in the Rural Lowlands, 1775-1875  
By Malcolm Gray  
University of Aberdeen

Welsh Emigration to the United States  
By Alan Conway  
University of Canterbury, New Zealand

The Austrian Emigration, 1900-1914  
By Johann Chmelar  
University of Vienna  
Translated by Thomas C. Childers

Causes and Patterns of Greek Emigration to the United States  
By Theodore Saloutos  
University of California, Los Angeles

On Becoming an Emigrant: A Structural View of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Swiss Data  
By Leo Schelbert  
University of Illinois, Chicago Circle

German Emigration to the United States  
By Wolfgang Kollmann and Peter Marschalck  
University of the Ruhr, Bochum  
Translated by Thomas C. Childers  
  
Causes of Mexican Emigration to the United States  
A Summary View  
By Arthur F. Corwin  
University of Connecticut

  
**PERSPECTIVES IN AMERICAN HISTORY**  
**VOLUME VIII - 1974**

The First Three American Colleges: Schools of the Reformation  
By Jurgen Herbst

"Brave Men and Servants to His Royal Highness": The Household of James Stuart in the Evolution of English  
Imperialism  
By Stephen Saunders Webb

Widowhood in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts: A Problem in the History of the Family  
By Alexander Keyssar

Economic Function and the Growth of American Port Towns In the Eighteenth Century  
By Jacob M. Price

The Bitter Fruit: Heredity, Disease, and Social Thought in Nineteenth-Century America  
By Charles B. Rosenberg

The Transformation of American Academic Life: Harvard University 1821-1892  
By Robert A. Mc Caughey

The Rebels of Greenwich Village  
By Kenneth S. Lynn

John Foster Dulles and Reparations at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919: Early Patterns of a Life  
By Ronald W. Pruessen

Political Isolationism: Economic Expansionism or Diplomatic Realism? American Policy toward Western Europe  
1921-1933  
By Melvyn P. Leffler

Violence in American History: Plug Uglies in the Progressive Era  
By Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones  
  
**PERSPECTIVES IN AMERICAN HISTORY**  
**VOLUME IX - 1975**

The Capacity of Quantitative History  
By Oscar Handlin

Reply to Oscar Handlin  
By Robert W. Fogel

Immigration of Russian Jews to the United States: Background And Structure  
By Simon Kuznets

"Meer Mechanics" and an Open Press: The Business and Political Strategies of Colonial American Printers

The Rise of the Waltham-Lowell System and Some Thoughts On the Political Economy of Modernization in Ante-  
Bellum Massachusetts  
By Robert F. Dalzell, Jr.

The Pluralist Reading of James Madison's Tenth Federalist  
By Paul F. Bourk

John Dewey and World War I: Armageddon Tests a Liberal's Faith  
By John C. Farrell

A Dialogue between an American and a European Englishman (1768)  
By Thomas Hutchinson,  
Edited by Bernard Bailyn  
  
**PERSPECTIVES IN AMERICAN HISTORY**  
**VOLUME X - 1976**

Urban Development in the Eighteenth-Century South  
By Carville Earle and Ronald Hoffman

The Distribution of Property in Boston, 1692-1775  
By G. B. Warden

Patrimony, Succession, and Social Stability: Guilford, Connecticut in the Eighteenth Century  
By John J. Waters

The Knowles Riot and the Crisis of the 1740's in Massachusetts  
By John Lax and William Pencak

The Decision for American Independence: A Reconstruction  
By Jack N. Rakove

The American Revolution and the American University  
By Jurgen Herbst

The Irish Famine Emigration to the United States  
By Oliver Macdonagh

Frank Hamilton Cushing and an American Science Of Anthropology  
By Joan Mark  
  
**PERSPECTIVES IN AMERICAN HISTORY**  
**VOLUME XI - 1977-1978**

Socialism and American Liberalism: Academic Social Thought in the 1880's  
By Dorothy Ross

Puritan Criminals: The Economic, Social, and Intellectual Background to Crime in  
Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts  
By Eli Faber

The King's College Controversy 1753-1756 and the Ideological Roots of Toryism in New York  
By Donald M. Gerardi

North Carolina Regulators on Liberty and Corruption, 1766-1771  
By A. Roger Ekirch

Identifiable Voting in Nineteenth-Century America: Toward a Comparison of Britain and the United States  
Before the Secret Ballot  
By Paul F. Bourke and Donald A. Debats

"The Nature- Trusting Heresy": American Physicians and the Concept of the Healing Power of Nature  
in the 1850's and 1860's  
By John Harley Warner

The Union Party of 1861 and Secession Crisis  
By Daniel W. Crofts

The Impact of The Civil War on the Free Colored Community of New Orleans  
By David C. Rankin

The Making of an American Sinologist: William W. Rockhill and the Open Door  
By Peter W. Stanley

  
The Atomic Bomb and the Normandy Invasion  
By Brian Loring Villa  
  
**PERSPECTIVES IN AMERICAN HISTORY**  
**VOLUME XII - 1979**

New Light on Wendell Phillips: The Community of Reform 1840-1880  
Edited and Introduced by Irving H. Bartlett

The Blagden Papers: A Description and Select A Listing  
Prepared by Suzanne Nicole Howard Currier

William Byrd's Family  
By Michael Zuckerman

Colonial Civil Servant and Counterrevolutionary: Thomas Irving (1738? - 1800) in Boston,  
Charleston, and London  
By John J. Mc Cusker

The Devil in Drink: Swedenborgianism in T. S. Arthurs's Ten Nights in A Bar-Room (1854)  
By Francis Lauricella, Jr.

Japanese Emigration to the United States 1866-1924: A Monograph  
By Yasuo Wakatsuki

The Exporting and Importing of Nature: Nature-Appreciation as a Commodity 1850-1980  
By Roderick Nash

Four Academic Ambassadors: International Studies And the American University before the  
Second World War  
By Robert A. Mc Caughey  
  
**PERSPECTIVES IN AMERICAN HISTORY**  
**NEW SERIES**  
**VOLUME I - 1984**

"Social Darwinism" Revisited  
Donald C. Bellomy

The Berlin Congress Hall, 1955-1957  
Barbara Miller Lane

Black Life in Eighteenth-Century Charleston  
Philip D. Morgan

Solving a Constitutional Puzzle: The Treatymaking  
Clause as Case Study  
Jack N. Rakove

European Emigration to North America, 1700-1820: Number and Quasi-Numbers  
Henry A. Gemery

Charles Sumner, the London Ballot Society, and the Senate Debate of March 1867  
Paul F. Bourke and Donald A. DeBats

Morality, Natural Law, and Unbelief: Some Roots of Agnosticism  
James Turner

Italian Mass Emigration to the United States, 1876-1930: A Historical Survey  
Anna Maria Martellone

  
**PERSPECTIVES IN AMERICAN HISTORY**  
**NEW SERIES**  
**VOLUME 2 - 1985**

The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction  
Bernard Bailyn

I. Worlds in Motion  
II. The Rings of Saturn  
III. A Domesday Book for the Periphery

Samuel Joseph May, Antebellum Reform, and the Problem Of Patricide  
Donald Yacovone

The Schooling of the Blacks in a Northern City: Providence,  
R.I., 1800-1925  
Joel Perlmann

Zion's Harp by the East River: Jewish-American Popular  
Songs in Columbus's Golden Land, 1890-1914 183  
Fred Somkin

The Making of a Social Science Classic: Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma  
Walter A. Jordan

Franz Boas and the Struggle for Black Equality: The Dynamics of Ethnicity  
Marshall Hyatt

**PERSPECTIVES IN AMERICAN HISTORY**  
**NEW SERIES**  
**VOLUME 3 - 1986**

Discoveries of America: Letters of British Emigrants to America on the Eve of the Revolution  
Barbara DeWolfe, ed.

The Episcopate Controversy Reconsidered: Religious Vocation and Anglican Perceptions of Authority in  
Mid-Eighteenth-Century America  
Donald F. M. Gerardi

The Origins and Transfer of German-American Concepts of Property and Inheritance  
A. G. Roeher

Beard's Historiography and the Constitutional Convention  
Shlomo Slonim

The Structures of Political Involvement in the Ninteenth  
Century: A Frontier Case  
Paul F. Bourke and Donald A. DeBats

The Necklace of A Whore  
Lilian Handlin

Two Generations: Modernists and Progressives, 1870-1920 271  
Donald C. Bellomy