Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism
by Goetzmann, William H
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- 0465004954
- ISBN 13
- 9780465004959
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New York: Basic Books; Perseus, 2009. xv, 456 pages; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. CONTENTS: 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: aboliton and/or union; Centennial vistas, 1876: toward the twentieth century.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- Title
- Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism
- Author
- Goetzmann, William H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0465004954
- ISBN 13
- 9780465004959
- Publisher
- Basic Books; Perseus
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
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