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
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