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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

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