The American Intellectual Trad

Hollinger, David A.

ISBN 10: 0195183401 / ISBN 13: 9780195183405

Edité par Oxford University Press, 2005

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Synopsis :

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.

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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The American Intellectual Trad
Éditeur : Oxford University Press
Date d'édition : 2005
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : Good
Edition : 5ème Édition