The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820This concise literary history of the American Enlightenment captures the varied and conflicting voices of religious and political conviction in the decades when the new nation was formed. Robert Ferguson's trenchant interpretation yields new understanding of this pivotal period for American culture. |
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... already on the lips of John Bradshaw , the regicide judge who , as president of the parliamentary tribunal in 1649 , refuses Charles I the right to speak before he is sentenced . Bradshaw already knows what eighteenth - century American ...
... already on the lips of John Bradshaw , the regicide judge who , as president of the parliamentary tribunal in 1649 , refuses Charles I the right to speak before he is sentenced . Bradshaw already knows what eighteenth - century American ...
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... already asks the crucial question in 1744. What can be done about it ? What should be the response when civil authority attempts to alienate a natural right ? The answer is a step in the articulation of colonial liberties . Since the ...
... already asks the crucial question in 1744. What can be done about it ? What should be the response when civil authority attempts to alienate a natural right ? The answer is a step in the articulation of colonial liberties . Since the ...
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... already has been stripped of its philosophical foundations in eighteenth - century thought . As Jefferson , the theorist , already has foreseen in vindicating THE LIMITS OF ENLIGHTENMENT 169.
... already has been stripped of its philosophical foundations in eighteenth - century thought . As Jefferson , the theorist , already has foreseen in vindicating THE LIMITS OF ENLIGHTENMENT 169.
Contents
What Is Enlightenment? Some American Answers | 22 |
Religious Voices | 44 |
Writing the Revolution | 80 |
Copyright | |
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