| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 321 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge Studies on the American South |
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Cambridge studies on the American South.
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| Contents |
Introduction : Jefferson's America -- American story -- American woman -- American character -- American public -- American state -- American union -- Epilogue : America's Jefferson |
| Summary |
This book emphasizes the centrality of nationhood to Thomas Jefferson's thought and politics, envisioning Jefferson as a cultural nationalist whose political project sought the alignment of the American state system with the will and character of the nation. Jefferson believed that America was the one nation on earth able to realize in practice universal ideals to which other peoples could only aspire. He appears in the book as the narrator of what he once called "American Story": as the historian, the sociologist, and the ethnographer; the political theorist of the nation; the most successful practitioner of its politics; and its most enthusiastic champion. The book argues that reorienting Jefferson around the concept of American nationhood recovers an otherwise easily missed coherence to his political career and helps make sense of a number of conundrums in his thought and practice |
| Bibliography |
Includes footnotes with bibliographical references, and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Political and social views
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Philosophy
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| SUBJECT |
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 fast |
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HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Philosophy
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Political and social views
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Politics and government -- Philosophy
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
Instructional and educational works.
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Matériel d'éducation et de formation.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781139528511 |
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1139528513 |
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9781139526128 |
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113952612X |
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9781139105842 |
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9781283574747 |
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9786613887191 |
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9781139527323 |
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1139531980 |
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9781139531986 |
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