Boats Against the Current American Culture Between Revolution and Modernity, 1820-1860

Name: Boats Against the Current American Culture Between Revolution and Modernity, 1820-1860
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ISBN: 9780742522503

ISBN-10: 0742522504

ISBN-13: 9780742522503

Edition: N/A

Authors: Lewis Perry

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Now available for the first time in paperback, Boats Against the Current offers a brilliant portrait of a society in the midst of change, expansion, and reflection about its own future and past. Written by one of our leading intellectual historians, it makes a major contribution to our understanding of the emergence of modern American culture.

Book details

List price: $62.00
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/28/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.98" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Preface to the Paperback Edition


Acknowledgments


Prologue



Nashville



Contrasts



A New Way of Life



The Hero and His Roles



A Vagabond's View of Civilization



The Dead Past



Looking for Connections



Choosing a Past



Holding onto History



Anti-History



Travelers



Ruins and Stumps



Tocqueville: Wilderness and Civilization



Bremer: Home and Citizenship



The Opening of the American Mind



Ambiguous Argonaut



Life as a Masquerade



City of Unwork



Excursion



Specimens of Equivoke



On the Road



Confidence and Sincerity



Emerson on the World of Shows



Modernity



Against the Current



A Step Toward Modernity



The Experience of Change


Epilogue: Retelling the Story


Notes


Index