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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827123703321

Autore

Ferguson Robert A. <1942->

Titolo

Reading the early republic / / Robert A. Ferguson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2004

ISBN

0-674-03680-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (374 p.)

Disciplina

973.3/072

Soggetti

Political culture - United States - History - 18th century - Historiography

Political culture - United States - History - 18th century

English language - United States - Rhetoric

English language - United States - Style

Criticism, Textual

United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Historiography

United States History 1783-1815 Historiography

United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Sources

United States History 1783-1815 Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2004.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p.[292]-351) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

'Reading the Early Republics' focuses attention on the forgotten dynamism of thought in the founding era. In every case, the documents, novels, pamphlets, sermons, journals, and slave narratives of the early American nation are richer and more intricate than modern readers have perceived.