European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, 2017
The book Transformations of Populism in Europe and Americas: History and Recent Trends came as a ... more The book Transformations of Populism in Europe and Americas: History and Recent Trends came as a product of the 'Transformations of Populism in Europe and the U.S.: History, Theories and Recent Tendencies' conference which was organized in 2011 at Buffalo State College. As stated by the authors, the volume presented here is 'the first trans-continental comparative historical study of populism' (p. xiii) since the book Populism: Its Meanings and National Characteristics was published by Ernst Gellner and Ghita Ionescu in 1969. Transformations of Populism is divided into three main parts: New Historical Perspectives on Populism; Historical Theories of Populism; and Recent Tendencies in Populist Movements in Latin America, Europe, and the United States. In their Introduction, the editors of the volume engaged, in short, into the examination and reassessment of populism as such. Based on the articles published in this volume the editors wished to provide answers to some of the questions raised by the authors. They engaged in the question of whether there can be such a thing as an ideal type of 'populist minimum' and their conviction 'that it is useful analytically to construct a "populist minimum", because there are a number of characteristics that nearly all populist movements share in common' (p. xiii). For this, they provide a set of characteristics shared by all or most populist movements, as well as a 10-point table of comparison between what they defined, progressive or reactionary populism.
the former a brilliant scion of presidents and the latter a successful business analyst, were als... more the former a brilliant scion of presidents and the latter a successful business analyst, were also in tellectuals who moved easily between academics and politics. Both subscribed to a materialist con
... Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Rodin, Auguste (b. 1840, d. 1... more ... Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Rodin, Auguste (b. 1840, d. 1917). Author: Marotta, Gary. Author: De Marco, Lynn Diane. PUBLISHER: BG Cantor Sculpture Center (New York, NY). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1981. ...
David S. Brown, Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography (Chicago: The University of Chicago... more David S. Brown, Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006) 291 pp., bibliography, list of students, index, cloth, $27.50, ISBN 0-226-07640-7. In March 1965, a delegation of distinguished historians, organized by University of Chicago scholars Walter Johnson and John Hope Franklin, gathered in Atlanta to join Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma to march to Montgomery. Richard Hofstadter was among them. Weeks earlier, Alabama state troopers, wheeling nightsticks and discharging tear gas, had busted up a voting rights march to Selma. John Hope Franklin, in his autobiography, recalls "those of us who gathered in Atlanta were taken by SCLC bus to Tuskegee, where we were to be received by Luther Foster, president of Tuskegee Institute. It was on route to Tuskegee that the bus made a lurch around the corner and almost left the road. At that point, Richard Hofstadter stood and pleaded with the bus driver to be more careful: 1If your driving leads to an accident that kills us all, you will set back the liberal interpretation of American history for a century.'" Hofstadter's irony was deeper than he realized. John Lewis, then of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and now of the U.S. Congress, had his head bashed open by a state trooper in Selma. Lewis was carrying a knapsack, which contained a copy of Richard Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition. Richard Hofstadter, a two time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was the seminal historian of his generation and the most penetrating interpreter of American political culture since deTocqueville. More than three decades after his death from leukemia in 1973 at the age of fifty-four, intellectuals and pundits freely borrow the concepts of social psychology he applied to analyze American history-paranoid style, status anxiety, status revolt, psychic crisis, antiintellectualism, agrarian myth. He was the vanguard scholar in propounding, along with Louis Hartz, Eric Goldman, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Daniel Boorstin, the "consensus" interpretation of American political history, yet he always remained its critic, arguing from the left of the vital center. He insisted on rejecting sentimentality, nostalgia, and hero worship, on questioning the received pieties and conventions, on exposing bathos. He was a supreme iconoclast, yet he has become mythic himself, the charismatic intellectual, the historian engage', the embodiment of literary elegance and style. David Brown's masterful and lucid study, Richard Hofstadter, An Intellectual Biography, is organized into three parts, corresponding to the principal periods shaping his life. Part one brings us from his radical roots in Buffalo, New York, into the making of the historian as social scientist, his encounter with the Frankfurt School, 1916-1950. Part two locates Hofstadter's genius during the heyday of twentieth century liberalism, places him into the vehement debates of his profession, and provides a sustained analysis of his major texts, 1950-1965. Part three captures the eclipse of Hofstadter's world as the academy moved to the radical left and the nation's political culture shifted to the reactionary right, 1965-1970. The book is an historiographical tour de force and a probing of the intelligencia of the American academy, notably New York City. Brown, who is associate professor of history at Elizabethtown College, in New Jersey, has successfully encountered the lion of Morningside Heights, the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. Brown describes his book as "an extended conversation with the formal writings of Richard Hofstadter." It's more than that, Brown's interviews with Hofstadter's colleagues and students, his close reading of his writings and those of his critics, including unpublished letters and manuscripts, bring to this book a perspectival balance, a subtle and perceptive interpretation. But there are still significant subjects unresolved: what of the influence of the two extraordinary women in his life, both literary, both from Buffalo, his wives Felice Swados and Beatrice Kevitt? …
Abstract. The role of American learned societies in developing support for an American colonial f... more Abstract. The role of American learned societies in developing support for an American colonial foreign policy has been neglected. Evidence indicates that American learned societies, in the period following the Spanish‐American War from 1898 to 1901, were intellectually predisposed toward an imperial policy. The debates within the American Historical Association, the American Economic Association, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science are described and analyzed. Each learned society abandoned the ivory tower” and mixed in impassioned politics. The “imperial” interpretation led historians to endorse empire as salutary; economists endorsed the role of the State in building markets for domestic production; and prevailing Social Darwinistic views of political economy led the Academy of Political and Social Science to support an activist, acquisitive foreign policy as necessary to the national interest. Dissident, anti imperialist scholars as well as skeptical scholars could not turn the imperial mood of these societies.
This is the introduction and a summary of the essays that appear in, Transformations of Populism ... more This is the introduction and a summary of the essays that appear in, Transformations of Populism in Europe and the Americas: History and Recent Tendencies," eds. John Abromeit, Bridget Maria Chesterton, Gary Marotta and York Norman (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016).
European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, 2017
The book Transformations of Populism in Europe and Americas: History and Recent Trends came as a ... more The book Transformations of Populism in Europe and Americas: History and Recent Trends came as a product of the 'Transformations of Populism in Europe and the U.S.: History, Theories and Recent Tendencies' conference which was organized in 2011 at Buffalo State College. As stated by the authors, the volume presented here is 'the first trans-continental comparative historical study of populism' (p. xiii) since the book Populism: Its Meanings and National Characteristics was published by Ernst Gellner and Ghita Ionescu in 1969. Transformations of Populism is divided into three main parts: New Historical Perspectives on Populism; Historical Theories of Populism; and Recent Tendencies in Populist Movements in Latin America, Europe, and the United States. In their Introduction, the editors of the volume engaged, in short, into the examination and reassessment of populism as such. Based on the articles published in this volume the editors wished to provide answers to some of the questions raised by the authors. They engaged in the question of whether there can be such a thing as an ideal type of 'populist minimum' and their conviction 'that it is useful analytically to construct a "populist minimum", because there are a number of characteristics that nearly all populist movements share in common' (p. xiii). For this, they provide a set of characteristics shared by all or most populist movements, as well as a 10-point table of comparison between what they defined, progressive or reactionary populism.
the former a brilliant scion of presidents and the latter a successful business analyst, were als... more the former a brilliant scion of presidents and the latter a successful business analyst, were also in tellectuals who moved easily between academics and politics. Both subscribed to a materialist con
... Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Rodin, Auguste (b. 1840, d. 1... more ... Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Rodin, Auguste (b. 1840, d. 1917). Author: Marotta, Gary. Author: De Marco, Lynn Diane. PUBLISHER: BG Cantor Sculpture Center (New York, NY). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1981. ...
David S. Brown, Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography (Chicago: The University of Chicago... more David S. Brown, Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006) 291 pp., bibliography, list of students, index, cloth, $27.50, ISBN 0-226-07640-7. In March 1965, a delegation of distinguished historians, organized by University of Chicago scholars Walter Johnson and John Hope Franklin, gathered in Atlanta to join Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma to march to Montgomery. Richard Hofstadter was among them. Weeks earlier, Alabama state troopers, wheeling nightsticks and discharging tear gas, had busted up a voting rights march to Selma. John Hope Franklin, in his autobiography, recalls "those of us who gathered in Atlanta were taken by SCLC bus to Tuskegee, where we were to be received by Luther Foster, president of Tuskegee Institute. It was on route to Tuskegee that the bus made a lurch around the corner and almost left the road. At that point, Richard Hofstadter stood and pleaded with the bus driver to be more careful: 1If your driving leads to an accident that kills us all, you will set back the liberal interpretation of American history for a century.'" Hofstadter's irony was deeper than he realized. John Lewis, then of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and now of the U.S. Congress, had his head bashed open by a state trooper in Selma. Lewis was carrying a knapsack, which contained a copy of Richard Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition. Richard Hofstadter, a two time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was the seminal historian of his generation and the most penetrating interpreter of American political culture since deTocqueville. More than three decades after his death from leukemia in 1973 at the age of fifty-four, intellectuals and pundits freely borrow the concepts of social psychology he applied to analyze American history-paranoid style, status anxiety, status revolt, psychic crisis, antiintellectualism, agrarian myth. He was the vanguard scholar in propounding, along with Louis Hartz, Eric Goldman, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Daniel Boorstin, the "consensus" interpretation of American political history, yet he always remained its critic, arguing from the left of the vital center. He insisted on rejecting sentimentality, nostalgia, and hero worship, on questioning the received pieties and conventions, on exposing bathos. He was a supreme iconoclast, yet he has become mythic himself, the charismatic intellectual, the historian engage', the embodiment of literary elegance and style. David Brown's masterful and lucid study, Richard Hofstadter, An Intellectual Biography, is organized into three parts, corresponding to the principal periods shaping his life. Part one brings us from his radical roots in Buffalo, New York, into the making of the historian as social scientist, his encounter with the Frankfurt School, 1916-1950. Part two locates Hofstadter's genius during the heyday of twentieth century liberalism, places him into the vehement debates of his profession, and provides a sustained analysis of his major texts, 1950-1965. Part three captures the eclipse of Hofstadter's world as the academy moved to the radical left and the nation's political culture shifted to the reactionary right, 1965-1970. The book is an historiographical tour de force and a probing of the intelligencia of the American academy, notably New York City. Brown, who is associate professor of history at Elizabethtown College, in New Jersey, has successfully encountered the lion of Morningside Heights, the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. Brown describes his book as "an extended conversation with the formal writings of Richard Hofstadter." It's more than that, Brown's interviews with Hofstadter's colleagues and students, his close reading of his writings and those of his critics, including unpublished letters and manuscripts, bring to this book a perspectival balance, a subtle and perceptive interpretation. But there are still significant subjects unresolved: what of the influence of the two extraordinary women in his life, both literary, both from Buffalo, his wives Felice Swados and Beatrice Kevitt? …
Abstract. The role of American learned societies in developing support for an American colonial f... more Abstract. The role of American learned societies in developing support for an American colonial foreign policy has been neglected. Evidence indicates that American learned societies, in the period following the Spanish‐American War from 1898 to 1901, were intellectually predisposed toward an imperial policy. The debates within the American Historical Association, the American Economic Association, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science are described and analyzed. Each learned society abandoned the ivory tower” and mixed in impassioned politics. The “imperial” interpretation led historians to endorse empire as salutary; economists endorsed the role of the State in building markets for domestic production; and prevailing Social Darwinistic views of political economy led the Academy of Political and Social Science to support an activist, acquisitive foreign policy as necessary to the national interest. Dissident, anti imperialist scholars as well as skeptical scholars could not turn the imperial mood of these societies.
This is the introduction and a summary of the essays that appear in, Transformations of Populism ... more This is the introduction and a summary of the essays that appear in, Transformations of Populism in Europe and the Americas: History and Recent Tendencies," eds. John Abromeit, Bridget Maria Chesterton, Gary Marotta and York Norman (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016).
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