Description
This outstanding book assesses the whole sweep of American thought from the colonial area to the present day. Some 250 scholars from philosophy, history, literature, and the social sciences have written original and substantial essays on the pivotal topics and figures in the history of American intellectual endeavor and achievement. Fully cross-referenced and indexed.
Author: Richard Wightman Fox
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 06/29/1998
Pages: 824
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 3.63lbs
Size: 9.70h x 7.82w x 1.79d
ISBN13: 9780631206569
ISBN10: 0631206566
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | General
- History | United States | General
Author: Richard Wightman Fox
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 06/29/1998
Pages: 824
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 3.63lbs
Size: 9.70h x 7.82w x 1.79d
ISBN13: 9780631206569
ISBN10: 0631206566
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | General
- History | United States | General
About the Author
Richard Wightman Fox is a cultural historian and Professor of History at Boston University. He taught previously at Reed College and Yale University. He is the author of Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography and So Far Disordered in Mind: Insanity in California; and co-editor, with Jackson Lears, of The Culture of Consumption and The Power of Culture.
James T. Kloppenberg is an intellectual historian and Professor of History at Brandeis University. His first book, Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought 1870-1920, was awarded the Merle Curti prize from the Organization of American Historians.