# 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. ![Cover of Perspectives in American History](/sites/g/files/omnuum5671/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/warrencenter/files/perspectives_image.jpg?itok=w47ieCUu) **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