New York intellect : a history of intellectual life in New York City, from 1750 to the beginnings of our own time / Thomas Bender.
Bender, Thomas, author.
1987
F128.6 .B46 1987 (Mapit)
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New York intellect : a history of intellectual life in New York City, from 1750 to the beginnings of our own time / Thomas Bender.
Author
Bender, Thomas, author.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0394550269
9780394550268
0394552069
Publication Details
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1987.
Language
English
Description
xix, 422 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number
F128.6 .B46 1987
Summary
A major social history of the intellectual life of New York City - the story of how, over three centuries, a minor colonial settlement became the capital of modern thought. From the eighteenth century on, New Yorkers have struggled to create new kinds of institutions, and new styles of thinking and writing, that would reflect the special character of their city, both its boundless energies and its deep divisions. Now Thomas Bender, Chairman of the Department of History at New York University, offers both an encompassing picture of the men and women who created the ideal of the New York intellectual."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-394) and index.
Series
Borzoi book.
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Part I: Civic Culture : THe Emergence of City Culture in new York ; Patricians and Artisans ; A University of the City
Part II: Literary Culture : Toward a Metropolitan Sensibility ; The Metropolitan Gentry: Culture Against Politics ; The Modern Literary Intellectual
Part III: Academic Culture : A Metropolitan University ; Professors as Intellectuals
Part IV: An International Capital of Culture : Refiguration.

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