A more conservative place [electronic resource] : intellectual culture in the Bush era / Paul A. Bove.
Series: Re-mapping the transnationalPublication details: Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, 2013.Description: xiv, 261 pISBN:- 9781611683424 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781611683691 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781611683707 (e-book)
- 973.931 23
- E169.12 .B685 2013eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A retrospective introduction -- American universalism and its democracy -- Area studies revisited -- The American state allegorizes the ruins -- Can American studies be "area studies"? -- Critical poetics: American resources for theorizing America -- Curiosity in the education of Henry Adams -- Can we judge the humanities by their future as a course of study? -- Humanities and the changing role of worldly engagement -- Rights discourse in the age of U.S.-China trade -- Historical humanist, American style -- The ineluctability of American empire -- The intellectual as a contemporary phenomenon -- The end of thinking: intellectual failure in the new world order -- Why the neocons hate Henry Adams.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.