7th edition of Prof. Capper’s “American Intellectual Tradition” two-volume series Released
Twenty-six years ago Oxford University Press published the first edition of Charles Capper and David Hollinger’s American Intellectual Tradition (AIT). Since then both volumes have sold over 75,000 copies and have been regularly assigned in courses throughout the U.S. and the U.K., on the Continent, and most recently in Asia. As the now standard textbook in U.S. intellectual history, it has significantly influenced the field’s canon, teaching practices, and research agenda. (See David A. Hollinger, “What Is Our ‘Canon’? How American Intellectual Historians Debate the Core of their Field,” Modern Intellectual History, 9 [April 2012], 185-200.) With eighteen new selections and essays providing new attention to debates over conservatism, educational theory, gender concepts. cultural criticism, race and ethnicity, political theology, technology and ecology, and American “exceptionalism,” this seventh edition is the most extensively revised version of the AIT yet published.
