Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, “American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction”
– Examines the history of American thought from the pre-contact period to the present day
– Written by one of the most distinguished intellectual historians of her generation
– Contains insights into key moments of American intellectual transformation, from the Enlightenment, transcendentalism, and Social Darwinism to progressivism, conservatism, and postmodernism
– Explores American history by way of ideas, thinkers, and intellectual movements
Long 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. Read more
