The ideas that made America : a brief history /
Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer,
The ideas that made America : a brief history / Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. - x, 220 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
World of empires: precontact-1740 -- America and the transatlantic Enlightenment: 1741-1800 -- From republican to romantic: 1800-1850 -- Contests of intellectual authority: 1850-90 -- Modernist revolts: 1890-1920 -- Roots and rootlessness : 1920-45 -- The opening of the American mind: 1945-70 -- Against universalism: 1962-90s.
"Spanning a variety of disciplines, from religion, philosophy, and political thought, to cultural criticism, social theory, and the arts, Ideas That Made America: A Brief History shows how ideas have been major forces in American history, driving movements such as transcendentalism, Social Darwinism, conservatism, and postmodernism"--
9780190625368 0190625368
2018027744
United States--Intellectual life.
United States--History.
E169.1 / R386 2019
The ideas that made America : a brief history / Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. - x, 220 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
World of empires: precontact-1740 -- America and the transatlantic Enlightenment: 1741-1800 -- From republican to romantic: 1800-1850 -- Contests of intellectual authority: 1850-90 -- Modernist revolts: 1890-1920 -- Roots and rootlessness : 1920-45 -- The opening of the American mind: 1945-70 -- Against universalism: 1962-90s.
"Spanning a variety of disciplines, from religion, philosophy, and political thought, to cultural criticism, social theory, and the arts, Ideas That Made America: A Brief History shows how ideas have been major forces in American history, driving movements such as transcendentalism, Social Darwinism, conservatism, and postmodernism"--
9780190625368 0190625368
2018027744
United States--Intellectual life.
United States--History.
E169.1 / R386 2019