Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
War, Race, and Modern Civilization: A Sociological Perspective
Introduction
Park's Study of the German Army
Park's Papers on the Congo Question
Park's Papers on the Race Question in the South
Introduction
Ranke, Treitschke, and Prussian Ethnonationalism
Park and Realpolitik
State Militarism
Park and the First World War
The Second World War and the Treitschkean Fulfillment
Total War and Modernity: The Garrison State
The Garrison State, Total War, and the Resurgence of Racism
From Conflict to Cold War
Park's Sociology of War as a Tragedy of Culture
Capitalism, Imperialism, and Gothic Sociology-An Introduction
Marx
Weber
Park's Antecedent: George Washington Williams
The African Mission Tradition in Afro-American Thought
Booker T. Washington, Robert E. Park, and Tuskegee in Africa
Robert Park's Congo-A Gothic Analysis of Capitalist Imperialism
Capitalism and Gothicism: Small and Park
Gothicist Sociology: Between Religion and Positivism
Appendix: Sociologies of Black Africa after Park
Introduction
Moravian Morals and Racial Accommodation in Early America
The Moravian Mission to America
Contradictions and Dilemmas in America's Protestant Heritage
Winston-Salem and the Concept of Accommodation
Religion, the Race Relations Cycle, and the Civil Ordering of Conflicts
Character, Christianity, and Racial Temperament
Color, Culture, and Civilization in Park's Sociology, 1914-1944
Civilization
An Ahistorical America
Africanisms in History and Culture
Segregation, Racism, and the World Racial Order
War, Race Conflict, and the Race Relations Cycle in America
Concluding Remarks
Notes
Selected Works of Robert E. Park: Militarism and Nationalism
The German Army: The Most Perfect Military Organization in the World
Germany's Military Problem
The German Nation in Arms
The German General Staff
The New Conditions of Modern War
Moltke's Work for the General Staff
The Duties of the General Staff
The Figures of Germany's Armed Strength
The Empire's Girdles of Defense
[Sombart on Sociology]
William Graham Sumner's Conception of Society: An Interpretation
Recent Atrocities in the Congo State
The Crimes of Two Months
In the Camp of the Refugees
Examples of Congo Justice
A King in Business: Leopold II of Belgium, Autocrat of the Congo and International Broker
The Terrible Story of the Congo
The Blood-Money of the Congo
The Yellow Press
A City of Racial Peace
Agricultural Extension Among the Negroes
Negro Home Life and Standards of Living
Letters Collected by R. E. Park and Booker T. Washington
The Conflict and Fusion of Cultures with Special Reference to the Negro
Methods of Teaching: Impressions and a Verdict
Index