Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus

ISBN-13: 9781108470964 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 518 str.

Wilson Jeremiah Moses

Opis

Provides a critical and controversial re-assessment of Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian influence by a leading intellectual historian.

Recenzje

'… offers a critical intellectual assessment of the man [Jefferson] and his influence.' G. A. Smith, Choice

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Lincoln and historiography; 3. Let our workshops remain at Monticello; 4. Life, liberty, property, and peace; 5. What is genius? 'Openness, brilliance, and leadership'; 6. A Renaissance man in the age of the Enlightenment; 7. Baconism and natural science; 8. Anthropology and ethnic cleansing: white 'rubbish' blacks, and Indians; 9. Education, religion, and social control; 10. Women and the Count of Monticello; 11. Debt, deference and consumption; 12. Defining the presidency.