The Growth of American Thought
#585 of 3,809 books · #215 in History
Won the Pulitzer Prize for History (1944).
The Growth of American Thought won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1944. With his elaboration of the complex interrelationships between the growth of American thought and the whole American social milieu, Curti creates not only an intellectual history, but a social history of American thought.
- Publisher
- Transaction Publishers
- ISBN-13
- 9780878558797
- Genre
- Topics
- American intellectual historySocial history of ideasHistory of American thought
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for HistoryWonMajor(1944)
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