American intellectual history a very short introduction
"American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction provides an introduction to American thought. It considers how notions about freedom and belonging, the market and morality have commanded generations of Americans and been the cause of fierce debate. Before the United States was a natio...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
2021
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| Schriftenreihe: | Very short introductions
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction provides an introduction to American thought. It considers how notions about freedom and belonging, the market and morality have commanded generations of Americans and been the cause of fierce debate. Before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. America and American thought grew from this foundation of expectation and experience, enriched by the Enlightenment, liberty and individuality, religion, and republicanism and democracy. The VSI shows how ideas have been major forces that drove movements in American history, such as transcendentalism and postmodernism"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | xxii, 158 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780190622435 978-0-19-062243-5 |