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The American Herbartian: A Portrait from His Yearbooks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

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Nations, in the course of their history, are confronted at certain intervals with totally new ideas and alternatives. The two or three decades preceding 1900, especially the decade of the nineties, was such a time for the United States and provided a provocative and challenging inception for the twentieth century.

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Copyright © 1963, University of Pittsburgh Press 

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