The Intellectual Construction of America
Subtitle: Exceptionalism and Identity From 1492 to 1800
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: February 5, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780807846315
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Anthropology; Cultural studies; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; United States - General; History - General History; History; History: American; USA; Anthropology - Cultural; North American; Ethnology; History / North America; History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775); History-United States - General; Intellectual life; Social Science-Anthropology - Cultural; Civilization
First sentence: When Columbus dropped anchor at the island he called San Salvador, he initiated the process by which a series of very different-and very old-worlds and a rich variety of places, cultures, and peoples were slowly revealed to an astonished Europe.