The cultural life of the new Nation, 1776-1830.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Series: The New American Nation series
Publisher: Harper
Published: 1960
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865; United States -- History -- 1783-1865
Description: Mr. Nye makes vividly clear the period's underlying patterns of thought, indicating the profound influence of European Romanticism, although American experience itself precluded the Old World's pessimism; how new discoveries in science were gradually wrecking the grand Newtonian scheme of the universe; and how all these changes affected religion, manners, education and the arts.
Notes: Includes bibliography.