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The mind of Thomas Jefferson /

In The Mind of Thomas Jefferson, one of the foremost historians of Jefferson and his time, Peter S. Onuf, offers a collection of essays that seeks to historicize one of our nation's founding fathers. Challenging current attempts to appropriate Jefferson to serve all manner of contemporary polit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Onuf, Peter S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2007.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Making sense of Jefferson
  • American synecdoche : Thomas Jefferson as image, icon, character, and self (with Jan Ellen Lewis)
  • A declaration of independence for diplomatic historians
  • Thomas Jefferson, federalist
  • The revolution of 1803
  • Thomas Jefferson and the expanding union
  • The Louisiana Purchase and American federalism
  • Jefferson's religion : priestcraft, enlightenment, and the republican revolution
  • Liberty to learn
  • Thomas Jefferson's military academy : a summary view
  • Thomas Jefferson, race, and national identity
  • Every generation is an "independant nation" : colonization, miscegenation, and the fate of Jefferson's children
  • Jefferson, morality, and the problem of slavery (with Ari Helo).