The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America

285 Pages·2004·13.46 MB·English

by  Eric P. Kaufmann

The Rise and Fall ofAnglo-America

The Rise and Fall of
Anglo-America
Eric P. I<aufmann
Harvard University Press
I
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England 2004
Copyright© 2004bythePresidentandFellows ofHarvardCollege
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PrintedintheUnitedStates ofAmerica
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IZaufmann,EricP.
Therise andfall ofAnglo-America/ EricP. IZaufmann.
p. em.
Includes bibliographicalreferences andindex.
ISBN0-674-01303-4(alk. paper)
1. UnitedStates-Ethnicrelations. 2. WASPs (Persons)-History.
3.Ethnicity- Politicalaspects- UnitedStates- History.4.UnitedStates
Politics andgovernment. 5. Politicalculture-UnitedStates-History.
6. UnitedStates- Intellectuallife. 1. Title.
E184.A1IZ325 2004
305.813-dc22 2004040507
To the memory of
Bob Warburton) 1938-2002

Contents
1 Introduction 1
I The WASP Ascendancy
2 The Rise ofAnglo-America 11
3 Limited Liberals: "Double-Consciousness" in
Anglo-American Thought, 1750-1920 37
4 Conservative Egalitarians: The Progressive Mind in the
Nineteenth Century 58
II The Cosmopolitan Vanguard, 1900-1939
5 Pioneers ofEquality: The Liberal Progressives 85
6 Cosmopolitan Clerics: The Role ofEcumenical
Protestantism 111
7 Expressive Pathfinders: The New York
Modernists 144
III The Fall ofAnglo-America
8 Cosmopolitanism Institutionalized, 1930-1970 177
9 The Decline ofAnglo-America 207
10 Cultural Modernization: Making Sense of
Anglo-America's Demise 244
11 American Whiteness: Dominant Ethnicity
Resurgent? 258
12 Liberal Ethnicity and Cultural Revival:
ANew Paradigm 283
13 Conclusion 305
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viii Contents
Notes 315
References 329
Acknowledgments 363
Index 365
The Rise and Fall ofAnglo-America