TY - BOOK AU - Winterer,Caroline TI - American enlightenments: pursuing happiness in the Age of Reason T2 - The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history SN - 9780300224566 AV - E162 .W56 2016eb U1 - 973.25 23 PY - 2016///] CY - New Haven, London PB - Yale University Press KW - Enlightenment KW - United States KW - Siècle des Lumières KW - États-Unis KW - HISTORY KW - State & Local KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Aufklärung KW - gnd KW - Nordamerika KW - gtt KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-336) and index; Introduction; American enlightenments --; The American setting --; Seashells in the Appalachians --; The civilization of the Aztecs --; The science of statistics and the invention of the "Indian population" --; Slavery in an enlightened age --; Religion in the Age of Reason --; The futuristic farmers of America --; Republics versus monarchies --; Epilogue; The tusks of the mastodon N2 - A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revolutionary War UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1362418 ER -