{"product_id":"the-american-mind-in-the-midnineteenth-century-9780882958095","title":"The American Mind in the MidNineteenth Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEXCERPT: The half century between the War of 1812 and the Civil War was above all an age of expansiveness in America. Whether measured in terms of population, territory, urbanization, economic growth, technological development, democratization, or nationalism, American society was transformed quantitatively and qualitatively at a spectacular rate. What Americans thought about themselves, their country, and their universe was always tightly linked to the changes they confronted, and the ideas they shared and disputed were both a product of and a commentary upon the expanding political, social, and economic democracy of the period. \u003cp\u003eStrictly speaking, of course, there was no American mind during this period, since Americans were then, as they are now, of many minds. Child and adult, man and woman, native and foreign born, Northerner and Southerner, slave and citizen-everyone who lived in America lived in a world of ideas and values shaped in part by a particular history and particular \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne: Interpreting American Democratic Thought 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo: Religion, Philosophy, and Science in the American Democracy 6\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReligion 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam Ellery Channing\u003c\/i\u003e 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles Grandison Finney\u003c\/i\u003e 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHorace Bushnell\u003c\/i\u003e 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhilosophy 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Academic Mind 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Transcendental Mind: Emerson 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScience 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThree: Political and Social Thought in the American Democracy 35\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Mind of the Jacksonians 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam Leggett\u003c\/i\u003e 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge Bancroft\u003c\/i\u003e 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Reform Impulse 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHenry Thoreau: The Transcendentalist as Critic and Reformer\u003c\/i\u003e 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWendell Phillips: The Rationale for Agitation\u003c\/i\u003e 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Grimke Sisters and the Birth of Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConservatism and Democracy 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaniel Webster and National Conservation\u003c\/i\u003e 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbraham Lincoln and Democratic Conservatism\u003c\/i\u003e 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFour: The Mind of the South 83\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Democratic Mind in the South 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Southern Mind as Apologist for Slavery 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn C. Calhoun\u003c\/i\u003e 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge Fitzhugh\u003c\/i\u003e 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Reactionary Enlightenment 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Mind of the Slave 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFive: The Democratic Imagination 108\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eP.T. Barnum: The Showman as Artist 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn American Literature 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWalt Whitman: The Democrat as Poet 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Novel in America 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNathaniel Hawthorne: The Democrat as Puritan 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHerman Melville: The Democrat as Skeptic 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSix: Conclusion 132\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBibliographical Essay\u003c\/i\u003e 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e145\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528409194839,"sku":"9780882958095","price":24.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780882958095.jpg?v=1731871515","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-american-mind-in-the-midnineteenth-century-9780882958095","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}