Cover of O Strange New World: American Culture, the Formative Years

O Strange New World: American Culture, the Formative Years

by Howard Mumford Jones · 1964

+ Want to read

Contents:

The image of the new world —

The anti-image —

Renaissance culture and America —

Renaissance man in America —

The colonial idea in England —

Read more

The useful and the good —

Roman virtue —

The radical republic —

Republican culture —

American landscape.

Subject
historyhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Setting
USAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 464 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

BuyAmazonGoogle Books

BorrowOpen LibraryA library near you

MoreCompare prices

Liked O Strange New World: American Culture, the Formative Years? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked O Strange New World: American Culture, the Formative Years. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. So Human an Animal: How We are Shaped by Surroundings and Events Rene Dubos · 1968 Shares pulitzer, pulitzer nonfiction, pulitzer non-fiction
  2. And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South Dale Maharidge, Michael S. Williamson · 1989 Shares pulitzer, pulitzer nonfiction, pulitzer non-fiction
  3. Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris Richard Kluger · 1996 Shares pulitzer, pulitzer non-fiction, pulitzer nonfiction
  4. Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence Erik H. Erikson · 1969 Shares pulitzer, pulitzer nonfiction, pulitzer non-fiction
See more recommendations →

“If you want more of the same (history), start with these.”

  1. Unpuzzling Your Past Emily Anne Croom · 1983
  2. Making Museums Matter Stephen E. Weil · 2002
  3. High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century Matthew Lasner · 2012
  4. Dishing Hollywood: The Real Scoop on Tinseltown's Most Notorious Scandals Laurie Jacobson · 2003

“If it was the pulitzer that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Wandering Through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Winter Edwin Way Teale, Ann H. Zwinger · 1965
  2. The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture David Brion Davis · 1966
  3. Rembrandt's Jews Steven Nadler, Rembrandt · 2003
  4. Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay William W. Warner, John Barth · 1976

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin · 1989
  2. Shadowboxing Joy James · 1999
  3. The Society for Useful Knowledge: How Benjamin Franklin and Friends Brought the Enlightenment to America Jonathan Lyons · 2013
  4. Machiavelli in Context William R. Cook · 2006

Report a problem