CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS	ix
PREFACE	xi
INTRODUCTION	1
PART 1 THE AMERICAN JOURNEY
ONE   Thoughts about America	11
Traveling to Progressive America	11
New Horizons of Thought	16
A “Spiritualistic” Construction of the Modern Economy?	20
TWO   The Land of Immigrants	25
Arriving in New York	25
Church and Sect, Status and Class	29
Settlements and Urban Space	36
THREE   Capitalism	39
The City as Phantasmagoria	40
Hull House, the Stockyards, and the Working Class	43
Character as Social Capital	48
FOUR   Science and World Culture	54
The St. Louis Congress: Unity of the Sciences?	54
The Last Time for a Free and Great Development: American Exceptionalism?	60
The Politics of Art	66
Gender, Education, and Authority	69
FIVE   Remnants of Romanticism	73
The Lure of the Frontier	74
The Problems of Indian Territory	82
Nature, Traditionalism, and the New World	90
The Significance of the Frontier	95
SIX   The Color Line	98
Du Bois and the Study of Race	100
The Lessons of Tuskegee	108
Race and Ethnicity, Class and Caste	112
SEVEN   Different Ways of Life	117
Colonial Children	117
Nothing Remains except Eternal Change	119
Ecological Interlude	127
Inner Life and Public World	129
The Cool Objectivity of Sociation	133
EIGHT   The Protestant Ethic	137
Spirit and World	139
William James and His Circle	146
Ideas and Experience	151
NINE   American Modernity	161
Strange Contradictions	164
Becoming American	168
Cultural Pluralism	174
TEN   Interpretation of the Experience	181
The Discourse about America	182
A Way Out of the Iron Cage?	185
America in Weber’s Work	191
PART 2 THE WORK IN AMERICA
ELEVEN   The Discovery of the Author	197
Author and Audience	197
Networks of Scholars	198
Translation History	201
The Disciplines	206
TWELVE   The Creation of the Sacred Text	211
An American in Heidelberg	213
Parsons Translates The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism	217
THIRTEEN   The Invention of the Theory	229
Gerth and Mills Publish a Weber “Source Book”	229
Parsons’s “Theory of Social and Economic Organization”	233
Weber among the Émigrés	238
Weberian Sociology and Social Theory	244
Weber beyond Weberian Sociology	249
APPENDIX 1: Max and Marianne Weber’s Itinerary for the American Journey in 1904	253
APPENDIX 2: Max Weber, Selected Correspondence with American Colleagues, 1904–5	257
ARCHIVES AND COLLECTIONS CONSULTED	267
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES	269
INDEX	305