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American enlightenments : pursuing happiness in the Age of Reason /
A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revolutionary War.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: American enlightenments
- The American setting
- Seashells in the Appalachians
- The civilization of the Aztecs
- The science of statistics and the invention of the "Indian population"
- Slavery in an enlightened age
- Religion in the Age of Reason
- The futuristic farmers of America
- Republics versus monarchies
- Epilogue: The tusks of the mastodon.