{"product_id":"2026100007612-secondhand-american-and-french-culture-1800-1900-interchanges-in-art-science-literature-and-society","title":"American And French Culture, 1800-1900: Interchanges In Art, Science, Literature, And Society","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good. Jacket: Worn\/faded - tears; clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the long nineteenth century, two great republics shaped one another in ways that history has seldom fully appreciated — American and French Culture, 1800–1900 chronicles the rich, reciprocal exchange of ideas, aesthetics, and innovation that flowed across the Atlantic between the United States and France. Henry Blumenthal maps this transatlantic dialogue across four vital domains — art, science, literature, and society — revealing how French Romanticism stirred American painters, how Enlightenment science crossed borders in both directions, and how the social upheavals of two nations in parallel revolution quietly transformed each other's institutions and values.\n\nBlumenthal writes with the authority of a meticulous historian and the breadth of a true cultural polymath, drawing on an impressive range of primary sources to construct a panoramic argument about civilisational influence. The work stands as a landmark of American intellectual history, demanding that readers reconsider the comfortable myth of American cultural isolationism. For anyone curious about how the modern world was quietly assembled from borrowed ideas, this sweeping study poses a question that lingers long after the final page: which culture, in the end, shaped the other more?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130587324635,"sku":"2026100007612-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/76ee66e4-3e71-429b-9ecf-33c8c9da9d4b.png?v=1786586932","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007612-secondhand-american-and-french-culture-1800-1900-interchanges-in-art-science-literature-and-society","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}