Beyond the Revolution : a history of American thought from Paine to pragmatism / by William H. Goetzmann; designed by Timm Bryson.

This book is dedicated to my grandchildren: Rusty, Zoe, Griffin, Sophie and Wells

Bibliography: pp. 403-437

Cont.: pt. 1. World history is American history. -- Tom Paine's vision -- The complex road to an independent civilization -- A new government and a new culture -- pt. 2. The greater enlightenment forms the national consciousness. -- The Scottish enlightenment and the minds of early America -- Nationalism and the varieties of capitalistic experience -- Reform, new religions, and nativism -- The diffusion of education -- The writer and the republic -- pt. 3. Information creates the romantic consciousness. -- Americans join the second great age of discovery -- I am "part or parcel of God" : the romantic search for the self -- The romantic writer as cosmopolitan seer -- pt. 4. The symbolic union : consciousness outruns nationality. -- The wild Jacksonian age -- The imperial mind : the west and the future as reality -- The south and the past as reality -- The Black man as intellectual -- The women's war -- Utopian ideas -- Battle hymns : aboliton and/or union -- Centennial vistas, 1876 : toward the twentieth century.