Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
1979
Abstract
It required little perceptiveness to call this a period of transition. In a sense, all periods are transitional. Seldom, however, has the transition been so pronounced and the participants so acutely aware that they were living through a transition. Prior to 1860, as Wiebe put it, Americans lived in "island communities:" small, isolated, relatively homogeneous populations comfortable in their assumptions about the world and confident of their universal applicability.
Recommended Citation
Battles, Larry Patrick, "Conservatism in Transition: American Conservative Social Thought, 1860 - 1920." (1979). All ETDs from UAB. 7021.
https://digitalcommons.library.uab.edu/etd-collection/7021
COinS
Comments
MA - Master of Arts; ProQuest publication number 31751941