Adams, Henry, 1838-1918.

The education of Henry Adams : a centennial version / by Henry Adams ; edited by Edward Chalfant and Conrad Edick Wright. - Boston : Charlottesville : Massachusetts Historical Society ; Distributed by the University of Virginia Press, 2007. - xiv, 500 p. ; 27 cm.

Includes index.

Quincy (1838-1848) Boston (1848-1854) -- Washington (1850-1854) -- Harvard College (1854-1858) -- Berlin (1858-1859) -- Rome (1859-1860) -- Treason (1860-1861) -- Diplomacy (1861) -- Foes or Friends (1862) -- Political Morality (1862) -- The Battle of the Rams (1863) -- Eccentricity (1863) -- The Perfection of Human Society (1864) -- Dilettantism (1865-1866) -- Darwinism (1867-1868) -- The Press (1868) -- President Grant (1869) -- Free Fight (1869-1870) -- Chaos (1870) -- Failure (1871) -- Twenty Years After (1892) -- Chicago (1893) -- Silence (1894-1898) -- Indian Summer (1898-1899) -- The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900) -- Twilight (1901) -- Teufelsdr�ockh (1901) -- The Height of Knowledge (1902) -- A Kinetic Theory of History (1902) -- Vis Inertiae (1903) -- The Grammar of Science (1903) -- Vis Nova (1904) -- A Dynamic Theory of History (1904) -- A Law of Acceleration (1904) -- Nunc Age (1905) -- App. The 1916 Emergency "Editor's Preface".

A memoir of nineteenth-century historian and philosopher Henry Adams in which he discusses the forces that influenced his life including, politics, religion, society, and literature.

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Adams, Henry, 1838-1918.


Historians--United States--Biography.

E 175.5 .A2 / A3 2007