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Thomas Jefferson believed that the American Revolution was a transformative moment in the history of political civilization. He hoped that his own efforts as a founding statesman and theorist would help construct a progressive and enlightened order for the new American nation that would be a model and inspiration for the world. In Jefferson's Empire, Peter S. Onuf traces Jefferson's vision of the American future to its roots in his idealized notions of nation-hood and empire.

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Thomas Jefferson believed that the American Revolution was a transformative moment in the history of political civilization. He hoped that his own efforts as a founding statesman and theorist would help construct a progressive and enlightened order for the new American nation that would be a model and inspiration for the world. In Jefferson's Empire, Peter S. Onuf traces Jefferson's vision of the American future to its roots in his idealized notions of nation-hood and empire.
Autorenporträt
Peter S. Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia, is the editor of Jeffersonian Legacies and, with Jan Lewis, of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture.