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James Wilford Garner (November 22, 1871,
Pike County, Mississippi
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– December 9, 1938) was an
American
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professor of
political science
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.
Biography
He graduated from the
Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1892 and studied at the
University of Chicago
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(Ph.M., 1900) and at
Columbia University
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(Ph.D., 1902), where he was a member of the
Dunning School
The Dunning School was a historiographical school of thought regarding the Reconstruction period of American history (1865–1877), supporting conservative elements against the Radical Republicans who introduced civil rights in the South. It was na ...
. His dissertation, ''Reconstruction in Mississippi'', though critical of
Reconstruction
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, was regarded by
W. E. B. Du Bois as the fairest of the works of the Dunning School.
He was professor of political science at the
University of Pennsylvania
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in 1902–1903 and professor of political science at the
University of Illinois
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, and he was editor in chief of the ''American Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology'' (1910–1911).
He edited ''Essays on Southern History and Politics'' (1914). He was Hyde lecturer in the
French universities (1921) and Tagore lecturer in the
University of Calcutta
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(1922).
Works
* ''Reconstruction in Mississippi'' (1901)
* ''The History of the United States'', with
Henry Cabot Lodge
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(four volumes, 1906)
* ''Introduction to Political Science'' (1910)
* ''Government in the United States, National, State, and Local'' (1911)
* ''Civil Government for Indian Students'' (1920)
* ''Idées et Institutions Politiques Américaines'' (1921)
* ''International Law and the World War'' (1920)
* ''Prize Law During the World War'' (1927)
*'' political science and government;(1928)
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1871 births
1938 deaths
American historians
American legal writers
American political scientists
American political writers
American male non-fiction writers
Columbia University alumni
Dunning School
People from Pike County, Mississippi
University of Pennsylvania faculty
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