American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction
by Ratner-Rosenhagen, JenniferEdition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2021-03-01
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Author Biography
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen is the Merle Curti and Vilas-Borghesi Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches US intellectual and cultural history. She is the author of American Nietzsche, which won the American Historical Association's John H. Dunning Prize, the Society for U.S. Intellectual History Book Award, and the Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the Best First Book in Intellectual History.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. World of Empires: Precontact-1740
2. America and the Transatlantic Enlightenment: 1741-1800
3. From Republican to Romantic: 1800-1850
4. Contests of Intellectual Authority: 1850-90
5. Modernist Revolts: 1890-1920
6. Roots and Rootlessness: 1920-45
7. The Opening of the American Mind: 1945-70
8. Against Universalism: 1962-90s
Epilogue: Rethinking America in an Age of Globalization; or, The Conversation Continues
References
Further Reading
Index
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