Richard Hofstadter

Richard Hofstadter ( born August 6, 1916 in Buffalo, New York, † October 24, 1970 ) was an American historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. He was one of the leading intellectuals of the American post-war era. Among his works are The Age of Reform ( 1955 ), and anti - intellectualism in American Life (1963 ), both of which won the Pulitzer Prize. He was for anti- intellectualism in American Life in 1963 moreover the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize - the Phi Beta Kappa Society awarded.

His handwriting Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860-1915 (1944 ), which emerged from his dissertation counts as the fundamental work for the study of Social Darwinism and is still regarded as the most cited publication on this area. Significantly, the work is also because Hofstadter with the work the term " Social Darwinism ", which previously was only very isolated and used in a slightly different form established in its present usage as a term in historical research and popularized. This compound is He also represents the social Darwinism as the theoretical foundation of laissez -faire capitalism dar. Personalized by Hofstadter, among others was represented in the person of the industrialist Andrew Carnegie which social Darwinist positions.

Published works

  • The Tariff Issue on the Eve of the Civil War. In: The American Historical Review. Volume 44, No. 1 (Oct., 1938), pp. 50-55 full text in JSTOR
  • Parrington and the Jeffersonian tradition. In: Journal of the History of Ideas. Volume 2, No. 4 (Oct., 1941), pp. 391-400 JSTOR
  • William Leggett, Spokesman of Jacksonian Democracy. In: Political Science Quarterly. Volume 58, No. 4 (Dec., 1943), pp. 581-594 JSTOR
  • U. B. Phillips and The Plantation Legend. In: The Journal of Negro History. Volume 29, No. 2 (Apr., 1944), pp. 109-124 JSTOR
  • Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860-1915. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 1944; 1992 edition with preface by Eric Foner
  • The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made it. AA Knopf, New York 1948.
  • Beard and the Constitution: The History of an Idea. In: American Quarterly. Volume 2, No. 3 ( Autumn, 1950), pp. 195-213 JSTOR
  • The Age of Reform: from Bryan to F.D.R. Knopf, New York 1955.
  • The Development of Academic Freedom in the United States. Columbia University Press, New York 1955. ( With Walter P. Metzger )
  • The United States: the History of a Republic. Prentice- Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N. J. 1957, college textbook; several editions; coauthored with Daniel Aaron and William Miller
  • Anti- intellectualism in American Life. Knopf, New York 1963.
  • The Progressive Movement, 1900-1915. Prentice- Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N. J. In 1963. Edited excerpts
  • The Paranoid Style in American Politics, and Other Essays. Knopf, New York 1965.
  • The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington. Knopf, New York 1968.
  • The Idea of ​​a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States, 1780-1840. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1969.
  • American Violence: A Documentary History. co-edited with Mike Wallace ( 1970)

Credentials

  • Modern era historian
  • University teachers (Columbia University)
  • Pulitzer Prize winner
  • Americans
  • Born 1916
  • Died in 1970
  • Man
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