Wilson Jeremiah Moses

Thomas Jefferson

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 522
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 762g
• ISBN-13: 9781108456876
• ISBN-10: 1108456871
• Artikelnr.: 69075653

Autorenporträt

Wilson Jeremiah Moses is Professor Emeritus at Pennsylvania State University and the author of six books: The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850-1925 (1978); Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms: Social and Literary Manipulations of a Religious Myth (1982); Alexander Crummell: A Study in Civilization and Discontent (1989); The Wings of Ethiopia: Studies in African-American Life and Letters (1990); Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History (Cambridge, 1998); and Creative Conflict in African American Thought (Cambridge, 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

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.