TY  - BOOK
AU  - Matthews,Jean V.
TI  - Toward a new society: American thought and culture, 1800-1830 
SN  - 9780805790528
U1  - 973.5 23
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Twayne Publishers
KW  - Intellectual Life
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Geistesgeschichte 1800-1830
KW  - Cultuurgeschiedenis
KW  - Zivilisation
KW  - Geistesleben
KW  - Geestesgeschiedenis
KW  - Geschichte (1800-1830)
N2  - The author chronicles the breakdown of Enlightenment values as the elitist and rationalist legacy of Jeffersonianism gave way to the populist and capitalist fervor of the Jacksonian era. Documenting the bewildering political and cultural changes between 1800 and 1830, Matthews demonstrates how the questions raised in all areas of cultural and intellectual life were fundamentally about the nature of the Republic itself
ER  -