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The Worlds of American Intellectual History (Hardcover)
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The Worlds of American Intellectual History (Hardcover)
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The essays in this book demonstrate the breadth and vitality of
American intellectual history. Their core theme is the diversity of
both American intellectual life and of the frameworks that we must
use to make sense of that diversity. The Worlds of American
Intellectual History has at its heart studies of American thinkers.
Yet it follows these thinkers and their ideas as they have crossed
national, institutional, and intellectual boundaries. The volume
explores ways in which American ideas have circulated in different
cultures. It also examines the multiple sites-from social
movements, museums, and courtrooms to popular and scholarly books
and periodicals-in which people have articulated and deployed ideas
within and beyond the borders of the United States. At these
cultural frontiers, the authors demonstrate, multiple interactions
have occurred - some friendly and mutually enriching, others laden
with tension, misunderstandings, and conflict. The same holds for
other kinds of borders, such as those within and between scholarly
disciplines, or between American history and the histories of other
cultures. The richness of contemporary American intellectual
history springs from the variety of worlds with which it must
engage. Intellectual historians have always relished being able to
move back and forth between close readings of particular texts and
efforts to make sense of broader cultural dispositions. That range
is on display in this volume, which includes essays by scholars as
fully at home in the disciplines of philosophy, literature,
economics, sociology, political science, education, science,
religion, and law as they are in history. It includes essays by
prominent historians of European thought, attuned to the
transatlantic conversations in which Europeans and Americans have
been engaged since the seventeenth century, and American historians
whose work has carried them not only to different regions in North
America but across the North Atlantic to Europe, across the South
Atlantic to Africa, and across the Pacific to South Asia.
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