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The American Intellectual Tradition; Volume I: 1630-1865

ISBN: 9780195183382 | 019518338X
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 10/20/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
Revised and updated, the fifth edition of this now standard two-volume anthology brings together some of the most historically significant writings in American intellectual history. Uniquely comprehensive, The American Intellectual Tradition includes classic works in philosophy, religion,social theory, political thought, economics, psychology, and cultural and literary criticism. Organized chronologically into thematic sections, the two volumes trace the evolution of intellectual writing and thinking from its origins in Puritan beliefs to the m... MORE
Prefaceix
Part One: The Puritan Vision Altered
Introduction
3(3)
John Winthrop
... MORE		6(10)
``A Modell of Christian Charity'' (1630)
7(9)
John Cotton
16(12)
Selection from A Treatise of the Covenant of Grace (1636)
17(11)
Anne Hutchinson
28(12)
``The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the Court at Newtown'' (1637)
29(10)
Roger Williams
39(1)
The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience (1644)
40(12)
Cotton Mather
51(1)
Selection from Bonifacius (1710)
52(15)
Jonathan Edwards
65(2)
``Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God'' (1741)
67(10)
Selection from A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (1746)
77(22)
Part Two: Republican Enlightenment
Introduction
95(4)
Benjamin Franklin
99(13)
Selection from The Autobiography (1784--88)
100(12)
John Adams
112(11)
A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law (1765)
113(10)
Thomas Paine
123(8)
Selection from Common Sense (1776)
124(7)
Thomas Jefferson
131(4)
The Declaration of Independence (1776)
132(3)
Alexander Hamilton
135(6)
``Constitutional Convention Speech on a Plan of Government'' (1787)
136(5)
``Brutus''
141(12)
Selection from ``Essays of Brutus'' (1787--88)
142(11)
James Madison
153(9)
The Federalist, ``Number 10'' and ``Number 51'' (1787--88)
154(8)
Judith Sargent Murray
162(7)
``On the Equality of the Sexes'' (1790)
163(6)
John Adams
169(10)
Letters to Samuel Adams, October 18, 1790; and to Thomas Jefferson, November 15, 1813; April 19, 1817
170(9)
Thomas Jefferson
179(28)
Selection from Notes on the State of Virginia (1787)
181(10)
Letters to John Adams, October 28, 1813; to Benjamin Rush, with a Syllabus, April 21, 1803; and to Thomas Law, June 13, 1814
191(12)
Part Three: Protestant Awakening and Democratic Order
Introduction
203(4)
William Ellery Channing
207(13)
``Unitarian Christianity'' (1819)
208(12)
Nathaniel William Taylor
220(15)
Concio ad Clerum (1828)
222(13)
Charles Grandison Finney
235(12)
Selection from Lectures on Revivals of Religion (1835)
236(11)
John Humphrey Noyes
247(8)
Selection from The Berean (1847)
248(7)
William Lloyd Garrison
255(15)
Selection from Thoughts on African Colonization (1832)
257(8)
``Prospectus of The Liberator'' (1837)
265(5)
Sarah Grimke
270(16)
Selection from Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman (1838)
271(15)
George Bancroft
286(9)
``The Office of the People in Art, Government, and Religion'' (1835)
287(8)
Orestes Brownson
295(16)
``The Laboring Classes'' (1840)
297(14)
Catharine Beecher
311(14)
Selection from A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841)
312(13)
Henry C. Carey
325(1)
Selection from The Harmony of Interests (1851)
326(16)
Part Four: Romantic Intellect and Cultural Reform
Introduction
339(3)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
342(26)
``The Divinity School Address'' (1838)
344(10)
``Self-Reliance'' (1841)
354(14)
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
368(14)
``A Glimpse of Christ's Idea of Society'' (1841)
369(7)
``Plan of the West Roxbury Community'' (1842)
376(6)
Margaret Fuller
382(19)
Selection from Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
383(18)
Henry David Thoreau
401(14)
``Resistance to Civil Government'' (1849)
402(13)
Horace Bushnell
415(10)
``Christian Nurture'' (1847)
416(9)
Herman Melville
425(17)
``Hawthorne and His Mosses'' (1850)
426(13)
Part Five: The Quest for Union and Renewal
Introduction
439(3)
John C. Calhoun
442(10)
Selection from A Disquisition on Government (c. late 1840s)
443(9)
Louisa McCord
452(13)
``Enfranchisement of Woman'' (1852)
454(11)
George Fitzhugh
465(11)
Selection from Sociology for the South (1854)
466(10)
Martin Delany
476(16)
Selection from The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States (1852)
478(14)
Frederick Douglass
492(15)
``What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?'' (1852)
493(14)
Abraham Lincoln
507(16)
``Speech at Peoria, Illinois'' (1854)
509(8)
``Address Before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society'' (1859)
517(3)
``Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg'' (1863)
520(1)
``Second Inaugural Address'' (1865)
521(2)
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