Books written by Joel Isaac

  • Working Knowledge
    Working Knowledge

    James Bryant Conant, On Understanding Science: AnHistorical Approach (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1947), 23. 65. PaulH. Buck et al.,General Education ina Free Society: Report of the Harvard Committee (Cambridge,MA: Harvard ...

  • Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn
    Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn

    ... 1982); David F. Allmendinger, Jr., Paupers and Scholars: The Transformation ofStudentLife in Nineteenth-Century New England (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975); W. Bruce Leslie, Gentlemen and Scholars: College and Community in the ...

  • States of Exception in American History
    States of Exception in American History

    The first comprehensive account of the politics of exceptions and emergencies in the history of the United States, this book weaves together historical studies of moments and spaces of exception with conceptual analyses of emergency, the ...

  • The Worlds of American Intellectual History
    The Worlds of American Intellectual History

    Bernard Bailyn, “General Introduction,” in Pamphlets of the American Revolution, 1750-1776, ed. ... “Disseminating Common Sense: Thomas Paine and the Problem of the Early National Bestseller,” American Literature 78 (March 2006): 1–28.

  • The Worlds of American Intellectual History
    The Worlds of American Intellectual History

    “Jewish Leaders Will Sponsor New Magazine,” Los Angeles Times, July 30, 1953, 20. ... 2014); Alex Beam, A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books (New York: Public Affairs, 2008); Janice Radway, ...

  • Uncertain Empire: American History and the Idea of the Cold War
    Uncertain Empire: American History and the Idea of the Cold War

    On jazz's recognition as “art music,” see Paul Lopes, The Rise of a Jazz Art World (Cambridge, 2002) . 42. The Time covermay beviewed at http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19541108,00. html (accessed June 16, 2011).

  • States of Exception in American History
    States of Exception in American History

    The first comprehensive account of the politics of exceptions and emergencies in the history of the United States, this book weaves together historical studies of moments and spaces of exception with conceptual analyses of emergency, the ...

  • Uncertain Empire: American History and the Idea of the Cold War
    Uncertain Empire: American History and the Idea of the Cold War

    Animating the volume as a whole is a question about the extent to which the Cold War was an American invention.

  • Uncertain Empire: American History and the Idea of the Cold War
    Uncertain Empire: American History and the Idea of the Cold War

    Uncertain Empire examines the idea of the Cold War and its application to the writing of American history.