A more conservative place intellectual culture in the Bush era /

Bove, Paul A., 1949-

A more conservative place intellectual culture in the Bush era / [electronic resource] : Paul A. Bove. - Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, 2013. - xiv, 261 p. - Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies . - Re-mapping the transnational. .

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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9781611683707 (electronic bk.)




Bush, George W. 1946- --Influence.


United States--Intellectual life--21st century.
United States--Study and teaching--Political aspects.


Electronic books.

E169.12 / .B685 2013

973.931