Leslie Butler
Biographic Data
| ID | 3979072 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie Butler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie |
| FAMILY NAME | Butler |
| SIGNATURE | BUTLER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
American Freethought
Freethinking in the United States has not wanted for scholarly attention. Since 2000 alone, important works by Eric Schlereth, Kirsten Fisher, Susan Jacoby, Harvey Kaye, and Leigh Eric Schmidt have expanded our understanding of this vital if never quite mainstream current of thought. But David C. Hoffman contends that this current has not received treatment as an actual social movement, one that—like abolition, temperance, or the women's movement…
Pax Economica
At the dawn of a second Trump administration, one that has promised tariffs as the solution to the United States’ economic woes, Marc-William Palen’s Pax Economica could not be timelier. The book grows out of his previous work, which detailed the way so many early adherents of free trade ideology also “advocated against imperialism in its myriad manifestations” (The “Conspiracy” of Free Trade: The Anglo-American Struggle over Empire and Economic …
Response to Wendy Sarvasy’s Review of Consistent Democracy
From the History of Ideas to Ideas in History
The story of American intellectual history's decline, fall, and phoenix-like rebirth in recent decades has become trite with the retelling: knocked from its position of prominence by the new social history and plunged into the chastened soul-searching of the famed Wingspread Conference of 1977, only to find itself rescued in part by the linguistic and cultural “turns” that swept the entire discipline of American history in the 1980s and 1990s. Li…
Historicizing American Travel, at Home and Abroad
In the winter of 1859, the Boston poet Julia Ward Howe sailed for Cuba; and in the winter of 1860, Ticknor and Fields published an account of her travel. A Trip to Cuba appeared only months after the same firm had published Richard Henry Dana's story of his “vacation voyage,” To Cuba and Back . These two narratives responded to a burgeoning American interest in the Caribbean island that promised recuperation to American invalids and adventure for…
Critical Americans
This intellectual history of American liberalism during the second half of the nineteenth century examines a group of nationally prominent and internationally oriented writers who sustained an American tradition of self-consciously progressive and cosmopolitan reform. The author addresses how these men established a critical perspective on American racism, materialism, and jingoism in the decades between the 1850s and the 1890s while she recaptur…
Critical Americans
Young America
This study examines the meteoric rise and subsequent disintegration of a vigorous American literary-political movement in the 1840s. Calling itself 'Young America', the group found a mouthpiece in the Democratic Review, a literary magazine funded by the Democratic Party and edited by the brash and charismatic John O'Sullivan. The Review was not only a major voice in American politics, but also sponsored such writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Wal…
From the History of Ideas to Ideas in History
The story of American intellectual history's decline, fall, and phoenix-like rebirth in recent decades has become trite with the retelling: knocked from its position of prominence by the new social history and plunged into the chastened soul-searching of the famed Wingspread Conference of 1977, only to find itself rescued in part by the linguistic and cultural “turns” that swept the entire discipline of American history in the 1980s and 1990s. Li…
Young America
This study examines the meteoric rise and subsequent disintegration of a vigorous American literary-political movement in the 1840s. Calling itself 'Young America', the group found a mouthpiece in the Democratic Review, a literary magazine funded by the Democratic Party and edited by the brash and charismatic John O'Sullivan. The Review was not only a major voice in American politics, but also sponsored such writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Wal…
Critical Americans
This intellectual history of American liberalism during the second half of the nineteenth century examines a group of nationally prominent and internationally oriented writers who sustained an American tradition of self-consciously progressive and cosmopolitan reform. The author addresses how these men established a critical perspective on American racism, materialism, and jingoism in the decades between the 1850s and the 1890s while she recaptur…
Critical Americans
Historicizing American Travel, at Home and Abroad
In the winter of 1859, the Boston poet Julia Ward Howe sailed for Cuba; and in the winter of 1860, Ticknor and Fields published an account of her travel. A Trip to Cuba appeared only months after the same firm had published Richard Henry Dana's story of his “vacation voyage,” To Cuba and Back . These two narratives responded to a burgeoning American interest in the Caribbean island that promised recuperation to American invalids and adventure for…
From the History of Ideas to Ideas in History
The story of American intellectual history's decline, fall, and phoenix-like rebirth in recent decades has become trite with the retelling: knocked from its position of prominence by the new social history and plunged into the chastened soul-searching of the famed Wingspread Conference of 1977, only to find itself rescued in part by the linguistic and cultural “turns” that swept the entire discipline of American history in the 1980s and 1990s. Li…
Response to Wendy Sarvasy’s Review of Consistent Democracy
American Freethought
Freethinking in the United States has not wanted for scholarly attention. Since 2000 alone, important works by Eric Schlereth, Kirsten Fisher, Susan Jacoby, Harvey Kaye, and Leigh Eric Schmidt have expanded our understanding of this vital if never quite mainstream current of thought. But David C. Hoffman contends that this current has not received treatment as an actual social movement, one that—like abolition, temperance, or the women's movement…
Pax Economica
At the dawn of a second Trump administration, one that has promised tariffs as the solution to the United States’ economic woes, Marc-William Palen’s Pax Economica could not be timelier. The book grows out of his previous work, which detailed the way so many early adherents of free trade ideology also “advocated against imperialism in its myriad manifestations” (The “Conspiracy” of Free Trade: The Anglo-American Struggle over Empire and Economic …
History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · 19th century (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · American History and Culture (2 works) · Art (2 works)