Education of Henry Adams.
Title:
Education of Henry Adams.
Author:
Adams, Henry.
ISBN:
9781775567004
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (774 pages)
Contents:
Title -- Contents -- Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Chapter I Quincy (1838-1848) -- Chapter II Boston (1848-1854) -- Chapter III Washington (18501854) -- Chapter IV Harvard College (1854-1858) -- Chapter V Berlin (1858-1859) -- Chapter VI Rome (1859-1860) -- Chapter VII Treason (18601861) -- Chapter VIII Diplomacy (1861) -- Chapter IX Foes or Friends (1862) -- Chapter X Political Morality (1862) -- Chapter XI The Battle of the Rams (1863) -- Chapter XII Eccentricity (1863) -- Chapter XIII The Perfection of Human Society (1864) -- Chapter XIV Dilettantism (1865-1866) -- Chapter XV Darwinism (18671868) -- Chapter XVI The Press (1868) -- Chapter XVII President Grant (1869) -- Chapter XVIII Free Fight (1869-1870) -- Chapter XIX Chaos (1870) -- Chapter XX Failure (1871) -- Chapter XXI Twenty Years After (1892) -- Chapter XXII Chicago (1893) -- Chapter XXIII Silence (18941898) -- Chapter XXIV Indian Summer (1898-1899) -- Chapter XXV The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900) -- Chapter XXVI Twilight (1901) -- Chapter XXVII Teufelsdrockh (1901) -- Chapter XXVIII The Height of Knowledge (1902) -- Chapter XXIX The Abyss of Ignorance (1902) -- Chapter XXX Vis Inertiae (1903) -- Chapter XXXI The Grammar of Science (1903) -- Chapter XXXII Vis Nova (1903-1904) -- Chapter XXXIII A Dynamic Theory of History (1904) -- Chapter XXXIV A Law of Acceleration (1904) -- Chapter XXXV Nunc Age (1905).
Abstract:
The Education of Henry Adams is the autobiography of the Bostonian Henry Adams. As he approached his seventieth birthday when "the mind wakes to find itself looking blankly into the void of death," Adams wrote and privately printed 100 copies of his "Education", a reflection on the incredible events of the 19th century. Adams meditates on his sense of disorientation with the scientific and technological expansion over his lifetime...
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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