Cargando…
Beyond the Revolution : a history of American thought from Paine to pragmatism /
A magisterial chronicle of America's intellectual history by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
New York :
Basic Books,
©2009.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. World history is American history
- Tom Paine's vision
- The complex road to an independent civilization
- A new government and a new culture
- pt. 2. The greater enlightenment forms the national consciousness
- The Scottish enlightenment and the minds of early America
- Nationalism and the varieties of capitalistic experience
- Reform, new religions, and nativism
- The diffusion of education
- The writer and the republic
- pt. 3. Information creates the romantic consciousness
- Americans join the second great age of discovery
- I am "part or parcel of God" : the romantic search for the self
- The romantic writer as cosmopolitan seer
- pt. 4. The symbolic union : consciousness outruns nationality
- The wild Jacksonian age
- The imperial mind : the west and the future as reality
- The south and the past as reality
- The Black man as intellectual
- The women's war
- Utopian ideas
- Battle hymns : abolition and/or union
- Centennial vistas, 1876 : toward the twentieth century.