Author:
Goetzmann, William H.
Imprint:New York : Basic Books, c2009.
Descriptionxv, 456 p. ; 25 cm.
Note: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 -- part 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 -- part 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 -- part 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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-436) and index.
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