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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... mind the gaps between surviving word and original thought , text and lost context , assertion and expectation , story and event . If " the real American Revolution " resists a narrative of heroics to reside elsewhere in the minds and ...
... mind the gaps between surviving word and original thought , text and lost context , assertion and expectation , story and event . If " the real American Revolution " resists a narrative of heroics to reside elsewhere in the minds and ...
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... mind . The pronunciamiento in the statement , the Declaration as an expression of the American mind , has controlled commentary to the virtual exclusion of the many negatives that Jefferson registers here . These negatives - " Not to ...
... mind . The pronunciamiento in the statement , the Declaration as an expression of the American mind , has controlled commentary to the virtual exclusion of the many negatives that Jefferson registers here . These negatives - " Not to ...
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... Mind in America from the Revolution to the Civil War . New York : Harcourt , Brace and World , 1965 . ed . The Legal Mind in America from Independence to the Civil War . Garden City , N.Y .: Doubleday , 1962 . Morgan , Edmund S ...
... Mind in America from the Revolution to the Civil War . New York : Harcourt , Brace and World , 1965 . ed . The Legal Mind in America from Independence to the Civil War . Garden City , N.Y .: Doubleday , 1962 . Morgan , Edmund S ...
Contents
What Is Enlightenment? Some American Answers | 22 |
Religious Voices | 44 |
Writing the Revolution | 80 |
Copyright | |
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