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1. • • The American historian Richard Hofstadter popularized the term in the United States in 1944. He used it in the ideological war effort against fascism to denote a reactionary creed that promoted competitive strife, racism, and chauvinism.
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   Dec 22, 2011 · Social Darwinism in American thought. by. Hofstadter, Richard, 1916-1970. Publication date. 1955. Topics. Non-Classifiable, Nonfiction - General, Evolution, Sociology. Publisher. Boston : Beacon Press.

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   • Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916 – October 24, 1970) was an American historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century. Hofstadter was the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University.

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   • Hofstadter specifically responded to Beard's social-conflict model of U.S. history, which emphasized the struggle among competing economic groups (primarily farmers, Southern slavers, Northern industrialists, and workers) and discounted abstract political rhetoric that rarely translated into action.

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   His most widely read works are Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860–1915 (1944); The American Political Tradition (1948); The Age of Reform (1955); Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1963); and the essays collected in The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964).

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   Mar 5, 2021 · by. Hofstadter, Richard, 1916-1970. Publication date. 1944. Topics. Social Darwinism -- United States -- History, Sociology -- United States -- History, Social Darwinism, Sociology, United States. Publisher. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press. Collection.

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   Sep 1, 1992 · Social Darwinism in American Thought portrays the overall influence of Darwin on American social theory and the notable battle waged among thinkers over the implications of evolutionary theory for social thought and political action.

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   The critical role of Darwinism in the social theory of William Graham Sumner has already been discussed, with observations on how Sumner assimilated evolution to the traditional concepts of political economy. In this respect, however, Sumner was exceptional.

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   Jan 31, 2017 · Social Darwinism in American Thought examines the overall influence of Darwin on American social theory and the notable battle waged among thinkers over the implications of evolutionary theory...

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    Thomas C. Leonard Origins of the myth of social Darwinism: The ambiguous legacy of Richard Hofstadter's Social Darwinism in American Thought, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 71, no.1 1 (Jul 2009): 37–51.