John Burgess Columbia University Political Science

By John W. Burgess

Sometime Ruggles Professor of Political Science and Constitutional Law in Columbia University

With a Foreword by Nicholas Murray Butler

Reprinted from the Columbia University Edition of 1934

Published by the AMS Press, New York, 1966, 430 pages including index.  Attractive blue cloth binding with faint wear to spine and corners, no fading.  Pages are bright, clean, and unmarked.  No dustjacket.  No remainder mark.  Ships boxed. 

John William Burgess (1844–1931) was a pioneering American political scientist.  Burgess was born in Tennessee and fought for the Union in the American Civil War.  He studied history at Amherst College, graduating in 1867, then at the universities of Göttingen, Leipzig, and Berlin for a number of years, where he studied under distinguished German scholars of the time: the historian Johann Gustav Droysen, the economist Wilhelm Roscher, the historian Theodor Mommsen, whose linking history with law strongly influenced Burgess's own approach, and Rudolf von Gneist.  He was much influenced by the training in research methods characteristic of German universities of the time.  He sought to import these methods of research and scholarship, first to Amherst (unsuccessfully) and later to Columbia.  He maintained a lifelong interest in German-American relations.

In 1876, Burgess was appointed to a professorship in the Law School of what later became Columbia University, a post he held until his 1912 retirement.  While at Columbia, Burgess taught constitutional law but more importantly, was instrumental in founding the discipline of political science in the USA.  In 1886, he founded the Political Science Quarterly.  He was instrumental in establishing the Faculty of Political Science, the first major institutionalized program in the United States granting the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, and was a member of the Dunning School of Reconstruction.  These endeavors have led to his being widely regarded as one of the founders of modern political science.  wikipedia

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