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1 online resource (xiii, 318 pages) : illustrations |
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New studies in American intellectual and cultural history |
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New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
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Acknowledgments; Introduction. "There exists in this city, a small association of men"; PART ONE. ASSOCIATIONS; Prelude. Pictures at an Exhibition; One. "The Town is the only place for rational beings": Sociability, Science, and the Literature of Intimate Inquiry; Two. Dangerous Associations: The Illuminati Conspiracy Scare as a Crisis of Public Intellectual Authority; Three. Unrestrained Conversation and the "Understanding of Woman": Radicalism, Feminism, and the Challenge of Polite Society; PART TWO. INDUSTRIES OF KNOWLEDGE |
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Prelude. James Kent, Legal Knowledge, and the Politics of PrintFour. The Public Is in the House: William Dunlap's Park Theatre and the Making of American Audiences; Five. "Here was fresh matter for discourse": Yellow Fever, the Medical Repository, and Arthur Mervyn; Coda. The End of the American Enlightenment: Samuel Miller's A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century; Appendix. Friendly Club Membership and Nineteenth-Century New York City Historiography; Abbreviations; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y; Illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Friendly Club (New York, N.Y.)
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Friendly Club (New York, N.Y.) fast |
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Intellectuals -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
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Fraternal organizations -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 18th century
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American literature -- Societies, etc. -- History -- 18th century
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American literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism
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American literature
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American literature -- Societies, etc.
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Fraternal organizations
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Intellectual life
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Intellectuals
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New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
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New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Biography
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140365
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New York (State) -- New York
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United States
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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LC no. |
2006019853 |
ISBN |
9781421403892 |
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1421403897 |
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