The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook : 1865 to the Present - Couverture souple

Hollinger, David A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195077814 ISBN 13 : 9780195077810

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1993

Synopsis

Revised and expanded, the second edition of this uniquely comprehensive two-volume anthology of many of the most significant documents in American intellectual history offers new selections from a diversity of authors; an extensive chronology connecting several hundred important books and essays with events in American and European intellectual, cultural, and political history; and updated bibliographies and headnotes. The anthology makes readily available substantial selections from the writings of prominent American thinkers, ranged chronologically from the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 to the present. Designed for easy use by a wide range of readers, it is an invaluable reader for anyone interested in intellectual history, American history, American studies, or American literature. Volume I (to 1865) now offers new selections by Sarah M. Grimke, Horace Bushnell, and Louisa S. McCord, and Volume II (1865-present) now offers new selections by Charles Hodge, Henry Adams, George Santayana, W.E.B. Du Bois, Randolph Bourne, H.L. Mencken, John Crowe Ransom, Meridel Le Sueur, Reinhold Niebuhr, Ralph Ellison, Whittaker Chambers, Betty Friedan, Adrienne Rich, Evelyn Fox Keller, Richard Rorty, and Michael Walzer."

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

David A. Hollinger is Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of several books, including Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism, Third Edition, Expanded (2006), Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity: Studies in Ethnoracial, Religious, and Professional Affiliation in the United States (2006), and Science, Jews, and Secular Culture (1996). He is the 2010-11 President of the Organization of American Historians. Charles Capper is Professor of History at Boston University. He is the author or coeditor of several books, including Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, Vol. 1: The Private Years (OUP, 1992), shich won the 1993 Bancroft Prize, and Vol. 2: The Public Years (OUP, 2007), and Transient and Permanent: The Transcendentalist Movement in Its Contexts (1999). He is also a coeditor of the journal Modern Intellectual History.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This two-volume anthology brings together some of the most historically significant writings in American intellectual history. The only collection of its kind, The American Intellectual Tradition, Fifth Edition, includes classic works in history, politics, social commentary, economics, law literature, and philosophy. Organized chronologically into thematic sections, it traces the evolution of intellectual writing and thinking from it origins in Puritan beliefs to the most recent essays on diversity and post-modernity. A short introduction by the authors precedes each work and both volumes include detailed chronologies and bibliographic material. Offering several new selections, this new edition addresses additional themes, including aesthetics, cultural criticism, Americanism, and race, gender, and sexuality.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195077814
• ISBN 13: 9780195077810
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 442
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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