Reading the Early Republic.
Ferguson, Robert A.
Reading the Early Republic. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (371 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Earliness of the Early Republic -- 2. The Dialectic of Liberty -- 3. The Commonalities of Common Sense -- 4. Becoming American -- 5. The Forgotten Publius -- 6. Finding Rome in America -- 7. Gabriel's Rebellion -- 8. Jefferson at Monticello -- 9. Charity in the City of Brotherly Love -- 10. The Last Early Republican Text -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.
Ferguson addresses the reconfiguration of charity in American life, the vital role of the classical ideal in projecting an unthinkable continental republic, the first manipulations of the independent American woman, and the troubled integration of civic and commercial understandings in the original claims of prosperity as national virtue.
9780674036802
Electronic books.
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973.3/072
Reading the Early Republic. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (371 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Earliness of the Early Republic -- 2. The Dialectic of Liberty -- 3. The Commonalities of Common Sense -- 4. Becoming American -- 5. The Forgotten Publius -- 6. Finding Rome in America -- 7. Gabriel's Rebellion -- 8. Jefferson at Monticello -- 9. Charity in the City of Brotherly Love -- 10. The Last Early Republican Text -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.
Ferguson addresses the reconfiguration of charity in American life, the vital role of the classical ideal in projecting an unthinkable continental republic, the first manipulations of the independent American woman, and the troubled integration of civic and commercial understandings in the original claims of prosperity as national virtue.
9780674036802
Electronic books.
E209
973.3/072