Reading the Early Republic.
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- 9780674036802
- 973.3/072
- E209
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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