Apostle of Human Progress: Lester Frank Ward and American Political Thought, 1841-1913

Edward Rafferty

doi:10.5771/9780585466712

Summary

Although Lester Frank Ward's accomplishments are not as well known today, he is considered the father of American Sociology and his work profoundly influenced such important thinkers as Thorstein Veblen, John Dewey, Edward Ross, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In Apostle of Human Progress, Edward C. Rafferty presents the first full scale intellectual portrait of this important public thinker. Rafferty shows how Ward's thought laid the foundations for the modern administrative state and explores his contributions to twentieth century American liberalism. Ideal for anyone interested in the history of American intellectuals and ideas.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2003
Copyright Year: 2003
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7425-2216-9
ISBN-Online: 978-0-585-46671-2
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 363
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: A Life Apart from Circumstantial Things No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter 1: Self-Made Men, 1841-1862 No access Pages 13 - 40
Chapter 2: An Equal Chance in the Race of Life, 1861-1870 No access Pages 41 - 70
Chapter 3: The Land of Birds and Flowers, 1870-1879 No access Pages 71 - 108
Chapter 4: Restless Skepticism, 1880-1883 No access Pages 109 - 140
Chapter 5: A True National Philosophy, 1883-1887 No access Pages 141 - 164
Chapter 6: The Great Social Problem, 1886-1893 No access Pages 165 - 202
Chapter 7: Spencer-Smashing at Washington, 1894-1900 No access Pages 203 - 240
Chapter 8: Gulliver among the Lilliputians, 1900-1913 No access Pages 241 - 282
Conclusion: Glimpses of the Cosmos No access Pages 283 - 296
Notes No access Pages 297 - 336
Bibliography No access Pages 337 - 356
Index No access Pages 357 - 362
About the Author No access Pages 363 - 363