The American Intellectual Tradition: A SourcebookVolume I: 1630-1865 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195097254 ISBN 13: 9780195097252

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1997

Synopsis

The third edition of this uniquely comprehensive two-volume anthology contains many of the most significant documents in American intellectual history. It includes new selections from a diverse group of authors that cover Puritan theology, communitarian thought, racial ideology, gender theory, cultural criticism, multiculturalism, and postmodernism. The extensive chronology has been revised and expanded to connect over a thousand important books, essays, and artistic works with events in American and European intellectual, cultural, and political history. Section introductions and headnotes have been rewritten to provide updated bibliographical references and to incorporate new ideas from scholarly literature about selections. This anthology makes readily available substantial selections from the writings of prominent American thinkers, ranging chronologically from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 to the present. Accessible to a wide range of students, The American Intellectual Tradition is invaluable for courses in intellectual history and serves as an excellent supplementary text for classes in American history, American studies, and American literature.
Volume I (to 1865) now offers new selections from John Cotton, Mercy Otis Warren, Henry C. Carey, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and William Lloyd Garrison; and includes writings of John Winthrop, Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams, Cotton Mather, Jonathon Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Grandison Finney, John Humphrey Noyes, Sarah M. Grimke, William Leggett, George Bancroft, Catharine Beecher, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Horace Bushnell, Herman Melville, John C. Calhoun, Louisa S. McCord, George Fitzhugh, Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln.

About this title

About the Author

David A. Hollinger is at University of California, Berkeley. Charles Capper is at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Review

"[T]he collection is an excellent text for courses in American intellectual history, and it offers teachers of American literature a fresh look at familiar works in a broader context."--1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, Inquiries in the Modern Era

"This remains the best anthology of selections in the history of American thought in print. The selections are judiciously chosen and are extensive enough to give students a real taste of the authors."--Daniel P. Murphy, Hanover College

"An excellent resource. Without peer!"--David Hein, Hood College

"Nothing to equal it."--Herb Cederberg, University of Wisconsin

"Just what I was looking for to use in my course on the social and intellectual history of the U.S."--John Tresch, Jr., Bluefield College, VA

"The greatest thing since sliced bread."--Donald K. Pickens, University of North Texas

"The best collection of representative American works that I have seen. It is enough to orient a class in American government around."--Donald J. Matthewson, California State University, Fullerton

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0195097254
• ISBN 13: 9780195097252
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 528
• Editor: Hollinger David A., Capper Charles