American Bibliography: 1751-1764
Author : Charles Evans
Publisher :
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 1905
Category : American literature
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Author : Charles Evans
Publisher :
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 1905
Category : American literature
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Author : Charles Evans
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 1941
Category : American literature
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Author : American Geographical Society of New York
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Page : 944 pages
File Size : 20,54 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Electronic journals
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Author : Henry Higgs
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 46,54 MB
Release : 1935
Category : Economics
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Author : Barry Alan Shain
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 25,50 MB
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0691224994
Sharpening the debate over the values that formed America's founding political philosophy, Barry Alan Shain challenges us to reconsider what early Americans meant when they used such basic political concepts as the public good, liberty, and slavery. We have too readily assumed, he argues, that eighteenth-century Americans understood these and other terms in an individualistic manner. However, by exploring how these core elements of their political thought were employed in Revolutionary-era sermons, public documents, newspaper editorials, and political pamphlets, Shain reveals a very different understanding--one based on a reformed Protestant communalism. In this context, individual liberty was the freedom to order one's life in accord with the demanding ethical standards found in Scripture and confirmed by reason. This was in keeping with Americans' widespread acceptance of original sin and the related assumption that a well-lived life was only possible in a tightly knit, intrusive community made up of families, congregations, and local government bodies. Shain concludes that Revolutionary-era Americans defended a Protestant communal vision of human flourishing that stands in stark opposition to contemporary liberal individualism. This overlooked component of the American political inheritance, he further suggests, demands examination because it alters the historical ground upon which contemporary political alternatives often seek legitimation, and it facilitates our understanding of much of American history and of the foundational language still used in authoritative political documents.
Author : American Geographical Society of New York
Publisher :
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Geography
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Author :
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Page : 350 pages
File Size : 22,94 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Best books
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Author : Charles Evans
Publisher :
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,26 MB
Release : 1941
Category : American literature
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Author : Virginia State Library
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 33,19 MB
Release : 1906
Category :
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Special reports and monographs are issued as part of some of the Reports.
Author : Charles Evans
Publisher :
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 20,74 MB
Release : 1941
Category : American literature
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