The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America
| Author | Eric P. Kaufmann |
|---|---|
| Published | 2004 |
| Format | Book |
TL;DR — Eric Kaufmann’s history of how WASP ethnic dominance in the United States rose and then declined, driven largely by liberal and cosmopolitan currents within that group itself.
Published by Harvard University Press in 2004. Kaufmann, a political scientist, treats Anglo-Protestant Americans as an ethnic group and traces how they defined American nationhood and then, during the twentieth century, lost their dominance.
The book’s argument is that the decline was driven less by immigrant pressure than by changes inside the WASP elite: the liberal and progressive thinkers, ecumenical Protestant clergy and New York intellectuals whose cosmopolitan ideas displaced the older ethnic conception of the nation. Chapters move from the “WASP ascendancy” and the rise of Anglo-America to the “cosmopolitan vanguard” of 1900–1939 and the later loss of cultural and political control.
What it is: an academic history from a university press, in print.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
384 pages. A PDF copy is held in Kyle’s private archive; it is not linked or shared here.