The ideas that made America : a brief history /
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,...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.