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Ideas in America: Source Readings in the Intellectual History of the United States [G. Grob, R. Beck] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. PB, see my photos: Title:Ideas in America: Source Readings in the Intellectual History of the United States.

Copyrt: Publisher: The Free Press. New York. Editors: Gerald N. Grob and Robert N. Beck. : G. Grob, R. Beck. Thoreau's Reading charts Henry Thoreau's intellectual growth and its relation to his literary career fromwhen he entered Harvard College, to his death in It also furnishes a catalogue of nearly fifteen hundred entries of his reading, compiled from references and allusions in his Author: Robert Sattelmeyer.

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American Ideas: Source Readings in the Intellectual History of Author: editors Grob, Gerald N., and Robert N. Beck. The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century by Peter Watson is a wonderful book on the lives and works of some of the great philosophers of the past and the present.

From Charles Darwin to Ludwig Von Mises, from Bertrand Russell to Alasdair MacIntyre, this is a comprehensive book on the major thinkers, writers, scientists, and scientists who created the ideas that we are by which we.

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Main Currents of Western Thought: Readings in Western European Intellectual History from the Middle Ages to the Present by Baumer () Paperback. 12 offers from $ Global Intellectual History (Columbia Studies in International and Global History) Samuel Moyn.

out of Reviews: 5. This essay was an attempt to reorient intellectual history. It was at least a partial success. A version also appears in my book of the same title and in the conference-based collection "Modern European Intellectual History: Reappraisals and New.

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33 books — 2 voters European Intellectual History. 3 books — 1 voter Browse By Tag. romance () fiction () young. I love the combination of dealing with great books and working class thought, which came together as a kind of intellectual-history-from-below. I loved this book at the first read, and have lost no admiration since.

Henry F. May’s The End of American Innocence: The First Years of Our Own Time, This is one of those early books. Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone. Go to Google Play Now» Ideas in America: Source Readings in the Intellectual History of the United States.

Studies have proven that reading books can increase the levels of the three major intelligence categories, crystallized, fluid and emotional intelligence.

So, here’s a list of the 10 best books that every intellectual should read. Plus, by reading great history books, you’ll learn things — maybe things that will give you some insight into today.

Steven John/The Manual. As Shakespeare once said in The Tempest, “What. For some, “close reading” of historical texts is virtually a defining feature of intellectual history.

Does this mean getting at what the text “says,” or reading between the lines for what it doesn’t or is unable to say, or wouldn’t if it could — a “surface” or a “symptomatic reading?”.

Main Currents of Western Thought: Readings in Western Europe Intellectual History from the Middle Ages to the Present by Franklin Le Van Baumer out of 5 stars 5. This is an ambitious book in which LaCapra seeks to upend, reform, and clarify the theories and methods of intellectual history.

It's a book about the production of ideas, and it's also a mirror book in being self-consciously an example of the production of ideas/5. I am still working on my lists for the latter two fields, but my reading list for U.S.

intellectual/cultural history is settled. I thought it might be helpful for our blog readers who may be planning a field in U.S. intellectual history to see what my exam list looks like.

So I am posting it below. Robert, thanks for this post and this fine reading list. Though it’s not focused on Reconstruction per se, David Blight’s Race and Reunion would be a nice complement to this list. That’s a book that everybody and anybody would do well to read in order to understand why and how certain misconceptions and misrepresentations about the Civil War/Reconstruction have had such staying.

Critical Readings in the Intellectual History of Early Modern Japan provides an overview of recent research into the most fascinating period in the development of Japanese thought.

Against a background of Buddhism, which all through the period remained the state-sponsored religion, Chinese studies spread and became the basis of all higher education.

ISBN: OCLC Number: Description: xi, pages illustrations 24 cm: Contents: Darwinism in America --The pragmatic mind --The spirit of reform --The religious temper --The literary tradition --The black mind --The spirit of technology --Science and society --Ideas and sibility: [by] C.K.

McFarland. I found the book to be full of value judgements and language that encouraged one dimensional views of past approaches to intellectual history.

In defining I was really excited to read this book. For obvious reasons, writing a short text intended to articulate an entire discipline means that the author will have to skim over a lot of important /5. This volume of Critical Readings provides an overview of recent scholarship about Japanese thought, as it took shape during the Edo Period.

It contains articles about all participants in the intellectual debate: Buddhism, Confucianism, National Studies, and Dutch Learning. Main Currents of Western Thought: Readings in Western Europe Intellectual History from the Middle Ages to the Present.

Many disciplines create books of readings by the dozens; it is a rare event when a reader helps to create a discipline. On its initial publication inMain /5(4). The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.

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[New York] Free Press of Glencoe [] (OCoLC) Document Type: Book: All Authors / Contributors: Gerald N Grob; Robert N Beck. Main currents of Western thought: readings in Western European intellectual history from the Middle Ages to the present Baumer, Franklin L.

Published by Knopf, New York (). Why China did not have a Renaissance – and why that matters: An interdisciplinary Dialogue (Critical Readings in Global Intellectual History Book 1) - Kindle edition by Maissen, Thomas, Mittler, Barbara.

Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Why China did not Author: Thomas Maissen, Barbara Mittler. The Cold War university that most of us admire or were trained in was an historical achievement for the common good (like the New Deal), but this brief period of public spiritedness is not, alas, very representative of the wider sweep of higher ed in American history.

I haven’t read it yet, but Charles Dorn’s recent book, _For the Common. For much of the twentieth century, the intellectual life of the Ottoman and Arabic-Islamic world in the seventeenth century was ignored or mischaracterized by historians.

Ottomanists typically saw the seventeenth century as marking the end of Ottoman cultural florescence, while modern Arab nationalist historians tended to see it as yet another century of intellectual darkness under Ottoman rule. This is a book of reading in Western intellectual history focusing on the role of reason in human action.

Rating: (not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first. Many disciplines create books of readings by the dozens; it is a rare event when a reader helps to create a discipline. On its initial publication inMain Currents of Western Thought did just that.

In the years since its first appearance, Main Currents has remained unquestionably the leading reader in its field. The illuminating short Price: $.

The richness of contemporary American intellectual history springs from the variety of worlds with which it must engage. Intellectual historians have always relished being able to move back and forth between close readings of particular texts and efforts to make sense of broader cultural dispositions.As intellectual history takes a global turn, the field urgently needs inspiring examples and salutary skepticism.

Global Intellectual History provides both in equal measure through multiple models drawn from exceptionally broad expanses of both time and space. The result is a milestone, a collection of the first importance for global historians and intellectual historians alike.We hope this open repository of comprehensive exam reading lists will be a resource to students of Intellectual History.

If you would like to share a list of your own, please send it along to [email protected] (Great podcast discussions about many of these books).