Title: Toward a new society
First published: 1991
Description: The author chronicles the breakdown of Enlightenment values as the elitist and rationalist legacy of Jeffersonianism gave way to the populist and capitalist fervor of the Jacksonian era. Documenting the bewildering political and cultural changes between 1800 and 1830, Matthews demonstrates how the questions raised in all areas of cultural and intellectual life were fundamentally about the nature of the Republic itself.
Subjects: Intellectual life, Civilization, Geistesgeschichte 1800-1830, Cultuurgeschiedenis, Zivilisation, Geistesleben, Geestesgeschiedenis, Geschichte (1800-1830)
Places: United States
Time periods: 1783-1865
LC classification: E164 .M38 1990