TY - BOOK AU - Ratner-Rosenhagen,Jennifer TI - The ideas that made America: a brief history SN - 9780190625368 AV - E169.1 R386 2019 PY - 2019///] CY - New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - United States KW - Intellectual life KW - History N1 - 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 N2 - "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"-- ER -