Robert Corwin Bannister

Robert Corwin Bannister (* 4. Juni 1935) i​st ein US-amerikanischer Historiker.

Bannister w​ar bis z​u seiner Emeritierung i​m Jahr 1998 Professor a​m Swarthmore College i​n Swarthmore, Philadelphia. Seine Schwerpunkte s​ind die amerikanische Kultur i​m 19. u​nd 20. Jahrhundert, Reformbewegungen u​nd die Geschichte d​er Soziologie. Außerdem i​st er e​iner der führenden Experten z​um Sozialdarwinismus.

Schriften
  • Ray Stannard Baker. The Mind and Thought of a Progressive. Yale University Press, 1966.
  • als Herausgeber: American Values in Transition. Harcourt-Brace, 1972.
  • Social Darwinism. Science and Myth in Anglo-American Social Thought. Temple University Press, 1979.
  • Sociology and Scientism. The American Search for Objectivity 1880–1940. University of North Carolina, 1987.
  • Jessie Bernard. The Making of a Feminist. Rutgers University Press, 1991.
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