The complete online text of American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History by John Fiske.

John Fiske, schoolmaster, physician, and minister, has only recently emerged as an important Puritan poet. Baptized at St. James' parish in South Elmham, Suffolk, England, on 20 March 1608, the son of John and Anne Fiske, he graduated from Peterhouse Col...

John Fiske (1842-1901), American philosopher and historian, was responsible for applying the Darwinian theory of evolution to philosophical and historical studies in the United States. Born Edmund Fisk Green (he later changed his name) on March 30, 1842,...

During his lifetime and well into the twentieth century John Fiske was regarded as an eminent scholar. He had numerous connections in the academic world--particularly at Harvard University where he was assistant librarian and occasional faculty member. A...

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Middle Eastern Politics and Ideas: A History from Within, Edited by Moshe Ma'oz and Ilan Pappe. London and New York: Tauris Academic Studies, 1997. 236 pages, with notes and index. $59.50, hardcover. When Albert Hourani died on January 17, 1993, at the...