Female Adolescence in American Scientific Thought, 1830-1930

Crista Deluzio

• Hardcover | Engels | New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
• In this groundbreaking study, Crista DeLuzio asks how scientific experts conceptualized female adolescence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centu... Lees meer

Without God, Without Creed

James C Turner

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
• Until the 19th century, atheism and agnosticism were viewed as bizarre aberrations. But atheism emerged as a viable alternative to other ideologies. H... Lees meer

Darwinism and the Linguistic Image

Stephen G Alter

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
• In the nineteenth century, philology--especially comparative philology--made impressive gains as a discipline, thus laying the foundation for the mode... Lees meer

Cybernetics Moment

Ronald R Kline

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
• Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Cybernetics--the science of communication and control as it applies to machines and to humans--originates from effo... Lees meer

Freedom from Want

Kathleen G Donohue

• Hardcover | Engels | New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
• In 1941, Franklin Delano Roosevelt identified "four essential human freedoms." Three of these--freedom from fear, freedom of speech, and freedom of re... Lees meer

Intimacy and Power in the Old South

Steven Stowe

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• Steven M. Stowe examines three types of ritual central to the elite planter culture of the pre-Civil War South: the affair of honor, courtship, and co... Lees meer

The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin

Douglas Anderson

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• A fresh look at the intellectual roots of one of the most engaging and multifaceted of America's founders. Benjamin Franklin, writes Douglas Anderson ... Lees meer

Masters and Statesmen

Kenneth S Greenberg

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• Masters and Statesmen delineates a provocative set of parallels between the proslavery argument, concepts of political representation, dueling, the th... Lees meer

Manhood Lost

Elaine Frantz Parsons

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• In fiction, drama, poems, and pamphlets, nineteenth-century reformers told the familiar tale of the decent young man who fell victim to demon rum: Rob... Lees meer

Reading Benedict / Reading Mead

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
• As anthropologists, public intellectuals, and feminists, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead played remarkable roles in twentieth-century life and thought... Lees meer

Reading the Market

Peter Knight

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• Americans pay famously close attention to "the market," obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. ... Lees meer

Psychology Comes to Harlem

Jay Garcia

• Hardcover | Engels | New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
• In the years preceding the modern civil rights era, cultural critics profoundly affected American letters through psychologically informed exploration... Lees meer

The Republic Reborn

Steven Watts

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
• Winner of the Book Prize for New Authors from the National Historical Society The War of 1812 played a critical role in the emergence of an American "... Lees meer