American enlightenments
Subtitle: pursuing happiness in the Age of Reason
By: Caroline Winterer
Series: The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history; Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780300192575
Subjects: Enlightenment
Description: A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revolutionary War.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-336) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: American enlightenments --; title: The American setting --; title: Seashells in the Appalachians --; title: The civilization of the Aztecs --; title: The science of statistics and the invention of the "Indian population" --; title: Slavery in an enlightened age --; title: Religion in the Age of Reason --; title: The futuristic farmers of America --; title: Republics versus monarchies -- -- Epilogue:; title: The tusks of the mastodon.