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Louis Hartz (April 8, 1919 – January 20, 1986) was an American political scientist, historian, and a professor at Harvard University, where he taught from 1942 until 1974. Hartz's teaching and various writings—books and articles—have had an important influence on American political theory and comparative history. which has shaped and narrowed the landscape of possibilities for U.S. political thought and behavior. Hartz attributed this triumph of the liberal worldview in the United States to the lack of a feudal past,

The Founding of New Societies

Hartz edited and wrote substantial sections of The Founding of New Societies, published in 1964, in which he developed and expanded upon his “fragment thesis.” It was applied to early colonial history by feminist historian Miriam Dixson in The Real Matilda (1976), in which she traced gender relations in colonial New South Wales to the culture of the proletarian fragment identified by Hartz. In 1973, the Australian Economic History Review dedicated an issue to analysis of Hartz's theory.

Bibliography

Books

Economic Policy and Democratic Thought: Pennsylvania 1776-1860. 1948. Harvard University Press.
The Liberal Tradition in America: An Interpretation of American Political Thought since the Revolution. 1955. Harcourt, Brace.
The Founding of New Societies: Studies in the History of the United States, Latin America, South Africa, Canada, and Australia. 1964. Harcourt, Brace & World. (edited).
A Synthesis of World History, (Zurich, 1984).
The Necessity of Choice: Nineteenth-Century Political Thought. Edited with an introduction by Paul Roazen. 1990. Transaction Publishers.

Selected articles

“John M. Harlan in Kentucky, 1855–1877”. Filson Club History Quarterly. 14 (1), January 1940. Archived from the original on May 2, 2012. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
“Otis and Anti-Slavery Doctrine.” 1939. The New England Quarterly 12(4): 745–747.
“Seth Luther: The Story of a Working-Class Rebel.” 1940. New England Quarterly 13(3): 401–418.
“Goals for Political Science: A Discussion.” 1951. American Political Science Review 45(4): 1001–1005.
“American Political Thought and the American Revolution.” 1952. American Political Science Review 46(2): 321–342.
“The Reactionary Enlightenment: Southern Political Thought before the Civil War.” 1952. Western Political Quarterly 5(1): 31–50.
“The Whig Tradition in America and Europe.” 1952. American Political Science Review 46(4): 989–1002.
“The Coming of Age of America.” 1957. American Political Science Review 51(2): 474–483.
“Conflicts within the Idea of the Liberal Tradition.” 1963. Comparative Studies in Society and History 5(3): 279–284.
“American Historiography and Comparative Analysis: Further Reflections.” 1963. Comparative Studies in Society and History 5(4): 365–377.
“The Nature of Revolution.” 2005 [1968]. Society 42(4): 54–61.

References

Sources

Barber, Benjamin. 1986. “Louis Hartz.” Political Theory 14(3): 355–358.