Ebook: The Ideas That Made America: a Brief History

World of empires : precontact-1740 -- America and the transatlantic Enlightenment : 1741-1800 -- From republican to romantic : 1800-1850 -- Contests of intellectual authority : 1850-1890 -- Modernist revolts : 1890-1920 -- Roots and rootlessness : 1920-1945 -- The opening of the American mind : 1945-1970 -- Against universalism : 1962-1990s.;"Spanning a variety of disciplines, from religion, philosophy, and political thought, to cultural criticism, social theory, and the arts, Ideas That Made America: A Brief History shows how ideas have been major forces in American history, driving movements such as transcendentalism, Social Darwinism, conservatism, and postmodernism"--