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American enlightenments : pursuing happiness in the Age of Reason / by Winterer, Caroline, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…American enlightenments --…”
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The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment / Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment

“…Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment…”
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...: Tocqueville on American enlightenment /... by Johnson, Laurie M.

Table of Contents: “…American enlightenment religion -- Tocqueville on honor -- Democratic honor : the American family -- Aristocratic v. democratic honor : the military -- American shame : enlarging democratic honor.…”
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Power, morals, and the Founding Fathers : essays in the interpretation of the American enlightenment / by Koch, Adrienne, 1912-1971

The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Table of Contents: “…Benjamin Franklin and the American Enlightenment /…”
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How the Old World Ended : the Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800. by Scott, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…14. Anglo-Dutch-American Enlightenment --…”
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Exceptional America : what divides Americans from the world and from each other / What divides Americans from the world and from each other by Jouet, Mugambi, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…One nation, divisible -- From the American Enlightenment to anti-intellectualism -- The exceptional influence of Christian fundamentalism -- The culture wars of faith, sex, and gender -- Between democracy and plutocracy -- Millions standing against their own economic interest -- Mass incarceration, executions, and gun violence in "the land of the free" -- America and the world.…”
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Administration and the other : explorations of diversity and marginalization in the political administrative state by Farmbry, Kyle, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Theoretical foundations -- The expert in an era of American enlightenment -- Slavery -- The Native American as the other -- The social sciences and the other -- The African American male as the other -- The immigrant as the other : part I -- Housing the other -- The war on poverty -- Educating the other -- Welfare and the other -- Counting and categorizing the other -- The immigrant as the other : part II.…”
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The dictionary of twentieth-century British philosophers

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(Dis) Forming the American Canon : African-Arabic Slave Narratives and the Vernacular. by Judy, Ronald A. T.

Table of Contents: “…Writing Being: The Slave Narrative as the Original Text; 2 Critique of American Enlightenment: The Problem with the Writing of Culture; 3 Writing Culture in the Negro: Grammatology of Civil Society and Slavery; 4 Critique of Genealogical Deduction: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and the (Dis)Formation of Canon Formation.…”
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Berkeley and Irish philosophy by Berman, David, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…George Berkeley -- On missing the wrong target -- Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment in Irish philosophy -- The culmination and causation of Irish philosophy -- Francis Hutcheson on Berkeley and the Molyneux problem -- The impact of Irish philosophy on the American Enlightenment -- Irish ideology and philosophy -- An early essay concerning Berkeley's immaterialism -- Mrs. …”
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(Dis) Forming the American Canon : African-Arabic Slave Narratives and the Vernacular. by Judy, Ronald A. T.

Table of Contents: “…Writing Being: The Slave Narrative as the Original Text; 2 Critique of American Enlightenment: The Problem with the Writing of Culture; 3 Writing Culture in the Negro: Grammatology of Civil Society and Slavery; 4 Critique of Genealogical Deduction: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and the (Dis)Formation of Canon Formation.…”
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The Fair Sex : White Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American Republic. by Schloesser, Pauline E.

Table of Contents: “…Constitution:Mercy Otis Warren as a Reluctant Signatory; 5 From Revolution to Racial Patriarchy: The PoliticalPragmatism of Abigail Adams; 6 Gleaning a Self between the Lines: Judith SargentMurray and the American Enlightenment; 7 Conclusion; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.…”
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The national uncanny : Indian ghosts and American subjects by Bergland, Renée L., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Summoning the invisible world: from the Jeremiad to the Phantasmagoria -- 3. The haunted American enlightenment -- 4. "The diseased state of the public mind": Brown, Irving, and Woodworth -- pt. 2. …”
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Speaking with the dead in early America by Seeman, Erik R.

Table of Contents: “…Voices of the Dead in the American Enlightenment -- Chapter 5. Eighteenth-Century Imaginative Literature -- Chapter 6. …”
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Kurt Vonnegut and the American novel : a postmodern iconography by Tally, Robert T., Jr

Table of Contents: “…The Dialectic of American Enlightenment: Cat's Cradle and God Bless You, Mr. …”
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The idea of America : reflections on the birth of the United States by Wood, Gordon S.

Table of Contents: “…Monarchism and republicanism in early America ; Illusions of power in the awkward era of federalism ; The American enlightenment ; A history of rights in early America -- Conclusion : The American revolutionary tradition, or why America wants to spread democracy around the world.…”

Modernity and its discontents : making and unmaking the bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow by Smith, Steven B., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…-- Benjamin Franklin's American Enlightenment -- Kant's Liberal Internationalism -- Hegel and the "Bourgeois-Christian World," -- Part Three Our Discontents -- Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment: Letter to d'Alembert on the Theater -- Tocqueville's America -- Flaubert and the Aesthetics of the Antibourgeois -- The Apocalyptic Imagination: Nietzsche, Sorel, Schmitt -- The Tragic Liberalism of Isaiah Berlin -- Leo Strauss on Philosophy as a Way of Life -- The Political Teaching of Lampedusa's The Leopard -- Mr. …”
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America and Enlightenment constitutionalism

Table of Contents: “…The Enlightenment and the Constitution in America. The American Enlightenment / Gordon S. Wood ; Enlightenment and experience: the Virginia Constitution of 1776 / Colin Bonwick ; Nation-making and the American constitutional process / J.R. …”
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A Companion to Colonial America. by Vickers, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Contents; About the Contributors; Introduction; 1 Pre-Contact: The Evidence from Archaeology; 2 The Origins of Transatlantic Colonization; 3 Ecology; 4 Migration and Settlement; 5 Empire; 6 Indian History During the English Colonial Era; 7 African Americans; 8 Economy; 9 Women and Gender; 10 Children and Parents; 11 Class; 12 Colonial Politics; 13 Regionalism; 14 Consumption; 15 Religion; 16 Secular Culture in Search of an Early American Enlightenment; 17 Borderlands; 18 Comparisons: The Caribbean; 19 Comparisons: New Spain; 20 Comparisons: New France; 21 Comparisons: Atlantic Canada.…”
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Science in Latin America : a history

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- INTRODUCTION: The Latin American Scientific Theater (Juan José Saldaña) -- CHAPTER 1: Natural History and Herbal Medicine in Sixteenth-century America (Xavier Lozoya) -- CHAPTER 2: Science and Public Happiness during the Latin American Enlightenment (Juan José Saldaña) -- CHAPTER 3: Modern Scientific Thought in Santa Fe, Quito, and Caracas, 1736-1803 (Luis Carlos Arboleda and Diana Soto Arango) -- CHAPTER 4: Scientific Traditions and Enlightenment Expeditions in Eighteenth-century Hispanic America (Antonio Lafuente and Leoncio López-Ocón)…”
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Republic of Intellect : the Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature. by Waterman, Bryan

Table of Contents: “…The End of the American Enlightenment: Samuel Miller's A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century; Appendix. …”
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Franklin in his own time : a biographical chronicle of his life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates

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The worlds of American intellectual history by Isaac, Joel, 1978-, Kloppenberg, James T., O'Brien, Michael, 1948-2015, Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Frames -- What was the American enlightenment? / Caroline Winterer -- The "woman question" in the age of mass democracy: from movement history to problem history / Leslie Butler -- "We people of color": colored cosmopolitanism and the borders of race / Nico Slate -- Curating the Black atlantic / Jonathan Holloway -- Part II. …”
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Liberalism for a New Century

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Thomas Jefferson by Bernstein, Richard B., 1956-2023

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