TY - BOOK ID - 78070910 TI - Conjectures of order PY - 2004 SN - 0807863734 9780807863732 0807828009 9780807828007 PB - Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press DB - UniCat KW - Intellectuals KW - Intelligentsia KW - Persons KW - Social classes KW - Specialists KW - History KW - Southern States KW - Europe KW - Council of Europe countries KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Eurasia KW - American South KW - American Southeast KW - Dixie (U.S. : Region) KW - Former Confederate States KW - South, The KW - Southeast (U.S.) KW - Southeast United States KW - Southeastern States KW - Southern United States KW - United States, Southern KW - Intellectual life. KW - Social conditions KW - Relations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78070910 AB - In this magisterial history of intellectual life, Michael O'Brien analyzes the lives and works of antebellum Southern thinkers and reintegrates the South into the larger tradition of American and European intellectual history. O'Brien finds that the evolution of Southern intellectual life paralleled and modified developments across the Atlantic by moving from a late Enlightenment sensibility to Romanticism and, lastly, to an early form of realism. Volume 1 describes the social underpinnings of the Southern intellect by examining patterns of travel and migration; the formation of ideas ER -