Table of Contents:
“…Idealism and opportunity -- Puritanism : Theology and religion ; The Reformation -- Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin ; The Reformation in England and Scotland ; Puritan versus Dissenter ; Puritan rule in New England ; After the theocracy -- Enlightenment in the colonies : The Age of Reason ; The Enlightenment in America ; Science in the colonies ; Political currents ; Progress -- the American dream -- Political patterns in the early republic : The rule of property ; Three key figures -- Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau ; The genesis of the Constitution ; The Federalist thesis -- Hamilton ; The agrarian antithesis -- Jefferson ; The equalitarian synthesis -- Jackson -- Unitarianism and Transcendentalism : Unitarianism -- rationality in religion ; Transcendentalism -- Theory and practice ; Transcendentalism and the people -- Expansionism : Behind the Appalachians ; The outward pressure ; Land grants and speculators ; The frontier -- democracy in action -- The triumph of industry : Farm or factory? …”