The American Intellectual Tradition : 1630-1865

Revised and expanded, the third edition of this uniquely comprehensive two-volume anthology contains many of the most significant documents in American intellectual history, offering new selections from a diverse group of authors on European and American religious, scientific, artistic, political, social, and economic practices. This anthology makes readily available substantial selections from the writings of prominent American thinkers, ranging chronologically from 1630 to 1865...
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Revised and expanded, the third edition of this uniquely comprehensive two-volume anthology contains many of the most significant documents in American intellectual history, offering new selections from a diverse group of authors on European and American religious, scientific, artistic, political, social, and economic practices. This anthology makes readily available substantial selections from the writings of prominent American thinkers, ranging chronologically from 1630 to 1865 (Volume I), and 1865 to the present (Volume II). In dropping some selections and adding new ones, this third edition offers the most recent and up-to-date scholarship on American intellectual history.