Title American enlightenments : pursuing happiness in the Age of Reason / Caroline Winterer.

Publication Info.	New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2016]
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Description	1 online resource (x, 355 pages) : illustrations.
	text file
Series	The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
	Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-336) and index.
Contents	Introduction: American enlightenments -- American setting -- Seashells in the Appalachians -- Civilization of the Aztecs -- Science of statistics and the invention of the "Indian population" -- Slavery in an enlightened age -- Religion in the Age of Reason -- Futuristic farmers of America -- Republics versus monarchies -- Epilogue: Tusks of the mastodon.
Summary	A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revolutionary War.
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Subject	Enlightenment -- United States.
	Enlightenment.
	United States.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Winterer, Caroline, 1966- American enlightenments. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2016] 9780300192575 (DLC) 2016937262 (OCoLC)945946500
ISBN	9780300224566
	0300224567
	9780300192575 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
	0300192576 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)