Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 376
Trim: 7 x 9¼
978-0-7425-3435-3 • Hardback • October 2004 • $54.00 • (£42.00)
978-0-7425-3436-0 • Paperback • September 2006 • $55.00 • (£42.00)
978-0-7425-7124-2 • eBook • October 2004 • $52.00 • (£40.00)
Carl J. Richard is professor of history at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. He is the author of The Founders and the Classics and Twelve Greeks and Romans Who Changed the World. He lives in Broussard, Louisiana.
Introduction
Unit I: The Age of Theism
Chapter 1: The Protestant Reformation: The Crucible of American Theism
Chapter 2: Early American Protestantism
Unit II: The Age of Humanism
Chapter 3: The Rise of Modern Humanism
Chapter 4: The Origins and Varieties of Republicanism
Chapter 5: Economic Theories
Chapter 6: Revivalism, Reform, and Romanticism in the Antebellum Period
Unit III: The Age of Skepticism
Chapter 7: The Rise of Modern Skepticism
Chapter 8: Pragmatism
Unit IV: The Age of Confusion
Chapter 9: American Thought since World War II
Bibliographical Suggestions
This book, with its recognition that historical currents are often circular, would be a welcome addition to public libraries and undergraduate collections.
— Library Journal
Carl J. Richard's The Battle for the American Mind is a provocative, well-written interpretation of American intellectual history 'for general readers' that is designed to further discussion of ideas rather than answer all scholarly questions. . . . The book would be a solid assignment for undergraduates and an informative study for the general reader, Richard's intended audience.
— Adam L. Tate, Clayton State University; Journal of Southern History
An ambitious and original book. Instead of 'explaining' America from the perspective of gender, race, class, economics or some other social science, Richard talks about the influence of worldviews on the development of the United States and so casts an interesting light on the development of America from its European origins through the colonial period, the Founding and down to today.
— E. Christian Kopff, University of Colorado, Boulder
The author had a good thematic approach.
— George Cotkin, California Polytechnic State University; American Historical Review
Succinct, incisive and selective, Carl Richard provides an engaging historical orientation to American intellectual life and its European antecedents.
— Daniel Walker Howe, Oxford and UCLA