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Amelioration and Empire: Progress and Slavery in the Plantation Americas (Jeffersonian America)
Christa Dierksheide argues that "enlightened" slaveowners in the British Caribbean and the American South, neither backward reactionaries nor freedom-loving hypocrites, thought of themselves as modern, cosmopolitan men with a powerful alternative vision of progress in the Atlantic world. Instead of ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Rival Visions: How Jefferson and His Contemporaries Defined the Early American Republic (Jeffersonian America)
by Daniel Klinghard • Eran Shalev • Peter S. Onuf • Christa Dierksheide • Armin Mattes • Dustin Gish • Daniel L. Dreisbach • John Ragosta • Darren Staloff • Jean Yarbrough • Charles HobsonThe emergence of the early American republic as a new nation on the world stage conjured rival visions in the eyes of leading statesmen at home and attentive observers abroad. Thomas Jefferson envisioned the newly independent states as a federation of republics united by common experi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Ireland and America: Empire, Revolution, and Sovereignty (The Revolutionary Age)
by Francis D. Cogliano • Nicholas Canny • Gordon S. Wood • T. H. Breen • Eliga Gould • Matthew P. Dziennik • Trevor Burnard • S. Max Edelson • Robert G. Ingram • Rachel Banke • Andrew J. O’Shaughnessy • Jessica Choppin Roney • Annette Gordon-Reed • Christa Dierksheide • Peter S. OnufO’Shaughnessy, International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello * Jessica Choppin Roney, Temple University * Gordon S. Wood, Brown University... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021