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Rebirth of a Nation
"Fascinating.... A major work by a leading historian at the top of his game--at once engaging and tightly argued." --The New York Times Book Review "Dazzling cultural history: …
Something for Nothing
Conjurers, Cranks, Provincials, and Antediluvians
The best essays from America’s premier cultural historian Jackson Lears has been hailed as the “dean of American cultural history” and “one of the few pre-eminent historians of …
Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street
" A] master class in American cultural and intellectual history." --Sarah E. Igo, The New York Times Book Review"Jackson Lears is the preeminent cultural historian of the American …
The Power of Culture
"We are in the midst of a dramatic shift in sensibility, and 'cultural' history is the rubric under which a massive doubting and refiguring of our most cherished historical …
Raritan on War: An Anthology
We are, once again, a world at war. Geopolitical elites are deploying the implacable forces of ethnocentric hatred and religious nationalism; ordinary people are paying a fearful …
Something for Nothing: Luck in America
Fables of Abundance
Fables of Abundance ranges from the traveling peddlers of early modern Europe to the twentieth-century American corporation, exploring the ways that advertising collaborated with …
The Short American Century
Writing in Life magazine in February 1941, Henry Luce memorably announced the arrival of “The American Century.” The phrase caught on, as did the belief that America’s moment was …
No Place of Grace
T. J. Jackson Lears draws on a wealth of primary sources -- sermons, diaries, letters -- as well as novels, poems, and essays to explore the origins of turn-of-the-century American …
No Place of Grace
A new edition of a classic work of American history that eloquently examines the rise of antimodernism at the turn of the twentieth century. First published in 1981, T. J. Jackson …
Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street
" A] master class in American cultural and intellectual history." --Sarah E. Igo, The New York Times Book Review"Jackson Lears is the preeminent cultural historian of the American …