Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen is the Merle Curti Associate Professor of History and Vilas-Borghesi Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches U.S. intellectual and cultural history. She is the author of the prize-wining American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas (2012). Her co-edited volumes include Protest on the Page: Essays on Print and the Cultures of Dissent (2015) with James Danky and the late James Baughman, and The Worlds of American Intellectual History (2016) with Joel Isaac, James Kloppenberg, and the late Michael O'Brien. Her next book project is a history of wisdom in 20th-century American thought and culture.

• IntroductionChapter 1: World of Empires (Precontact-1740)Chapter 2: America and the Transatlantic Enlightenment (1740-1800)Chapter 3: From Republican to Romantic (1800-1850)Chapter 4: Contests of Intellectual Authority (1850-1890)Chapter 5: Fin-de-siècle Revolts against Absolutes (1890-1920)Chapter 6: Roots and Rootlessness from the First World War to the Second (1920-45)Chapter 7: The Opening of the American Mind (1945-1970)Chapter 8: The End of Universalism (1962-1990s)Epilogue: Rethinking Cosmopolitanism in an Age of GlobalizationNotes Index

The Ideas that Made America captures the present state of the field at a pivotal moment, one which demands clarity about what kind of intellectual history we want, and what we want from intellectual history.

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen is the Merle Curti Associate Professor of History and Vilas-Borghesi Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches U.S. intellectual and cultural history. She is the author of the prize-wining American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas (2012). Her co-edited volumes include Protest on the Page: Essays on Print and the Cultures of Dissent (2015) with James Danky and the late James Baughman, and The Worlds of American Intellectual History (2016) with Joel Isaac, James Kloppenberg, and the late Michael O'Brien. Her next book project is a history of wisdom in 20th-century American thought and culture.

• IntroductionChapter 1: World of Empires (Precontact-1740)Chapter 2: America and the Transatlantic Enlightenment (1740-1800)Chapter 3: From Republican to Romantic (1800-1850)Chapter 4: Contests of Intellectual Authority (1850-1890)Chapter 5: Fin-de-siècle Revolts against Absolutes (1890-1920)Chapter 6: Roots and Rootlessness from the First World War to the Second (1920-45)Chapter 7: The Opening of the American Mind (1945-1970)Chapter 8: The End of Universalism (1962-1990s)Epilogue: Rethinking Cosmopolitanism in an Age of GlobalizationNotes Index

The Ideas that Made America captures the present state of the field at a pivotal moment, one which demands clarity about what kind of intellectual history we want, and what we want from intellectual history.

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen is the Merle Curti Associate Professor of History and Vilas-Borghesi Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches U.S. intellectual and cultural history. She is the author of the prize-wining American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas (2012). Her co-edited volumes include Protest on the Page: Essays on Print and the Cultures of Dissent (2015) with James Danky and the late James Baughman, and The Worlds of American Intellectual History (2016) with Joel Isaac, James Kloppenberg, and the late Michael O'Brien. Her next book project is a history of wisdom in 20th-century American thought and culture.

• IntroductionChapter 1: World of Empires (Precontact-1740)Chapter 2: America and the Transatlantic Enlightenment (1740-1800)Chapter 3: From Republican to Romantic (1800-1850)Chapter 4: Contests of Intellectual Authority (1850-1890)Chapter 5: Fin-de-siècle Revolts against Absolutes (1890-1920)Chapter 6: Roots and Rootlessness from the First World War to the Second (1920-45)Chapter 7: The Opening of the American Mind (1945-1970)Chapter 8: The End of Universalism (1962-1990s)Epilogue: Rethinking Cosmopolitanism in an Age of GlobalizationNotes Index

The Ideas that Made America captures the present state of the field at a pivotal moment, one which demands clarity about what kind of intellectual history we want, and what we want from intellectual history.