American enlightenments : pursuing happiness in the Age of Reason /
Caroline Winterer.
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource (x, 355 pages) : illustrations.
- The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history .
Includes bibliographies and index.
-- American enlightenments -- The American setting -- Seashells in the Appalachians -- The civilization of the Aztecs -- The science of statistics and the invention of the "Indian population" -- Slavery in an enlightened age -- Religion in the Age of Reason -- The futuristic farmers of America -- Republics versus monarchies -- The tusks of the mastodon.
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.