Note 207 — II A Sketch of the History of the Idea of Milieu Since the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

Vide e.g. James Harvey Robinson’s The New History, Essays Illustrating the Modern Historical Outlook (N. Y.: Macmillan, 1912), for references to the theory of milieu, cf. esp. p. 64, 73, 76 f., 92 f., 97 f., 124–6, 144, 145 f., 247, 253–7, and ch. 3 (pp. 70 ff.): The new allies of history. Or take for choice the title of a recent book by Charles A. Beard: An Economic Interpretation of American Politics (Macmillan, 1916), to be further persuaded of the attention bestowed by historians on the milieu. Or, see works by Seligman and J. T. Shotwell.