Building culture
Subtitle: studies in the intellectual history of industrializing America, 1867-1910
By: Richard F. Teichgraeber III.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781570039256
Subjects: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, -- 1803-1882 -- Influence; Industrialization -- Social aspects -- United States -- History; Education, Higher -- United States -- History; Universities and colleges -- United States -- History; Racism in education -- United States -- History; African Americans -- Education -- History; United States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-1918; United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The word of the modern" : "culture" in industrializing America; title: "Our national glory" : Emerson in American culture, 1865-82; title: "More than Luther of these modern days" : the social construction of Emerson's posthumous reputation, 1882-1903; title: The academic public sphere : the university movement in American culture, 1870-1901; title: Race and academic culture in 1903 : the twin conventions, the Basset affair, and the souls of Black folk.