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Black Reason, White Feeling - The Jeffersonian Enlightenment In The African American Tradition

by Hannah Spahn

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 Illuminates the philosophical innovations that Black intellectuals made to build on Thomas Jeffersonâ€™s thought, shaping both Jeffersonâ€™s historical image and the exalted legacy of his ideas in American culture.
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The Celebrated Elizabeth Smith - Crafting Genius And Transatlantic Fame In The Romantic Era

by Lucia Mcmahon

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 In this elegantly written biography, Lucia McMahon reconstructs the places and social constellations that enabled Elizabeth Smithâ€™s learning and adventures in England, Wales, and Ireland, and traces her transatlantic fame and literary afterlife across Britain and the United States.
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After Virginia Tech - Guns, Safety, And Healing In The Era Of Mass Shootings

by Thomas P. Kapsidelis

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 Award-winning journalist Thomas Kapsidelis examines the decade after the Virginia Tech massacre through the experiences of survivors and community members who advocated for reforms in gun safety, campus security, trauma recovery, and mental health.
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Anecdotes Of Enlightenment - Human Nature From Locke To Wordsworth

by James Robert Wood

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 Provides a literary history of the anecdote in English. Drawing on extensive archival research and emphasizing the anecdote as a way of thinking, James Robert Wood shows that an intimate relationship developed between the anecdote and the Enlightenment concept of human nature.
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Amelioration And Empire - Progress And Slavery In The Plantation Americas

by Christa Dierksheide

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 "This book examines arguments made in the colonial Americas for the gradual mitigation of slavery rather than outright abolition"--Provided by publisher.
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Old World, New World - America And Europe In The Age Of Jefferson

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 Based on the workshops in Salzburg and Charlottesville sponsored by Monticello's International Center for Jefferson Studies, this title examines a question of longstanding interest to American historians: the nature of the relationship between America and Europe during the Age of Revolution.
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Rome Reborn On Western Shores - Historical Imagination And The Creation Of The American Republic

by Eran Shalev

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 Examines the literature of the Revolutionary era to explore the ways in which American patriots employed the classics and to assess antiquity's importance to the early political culture of the United States.
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From Jamestown To Jefferson - The Evolution Of Religious Freedom In Virginia

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 The origins of this volume lie in a semester-long symposium held during the fall of 2007 at Virginia Wesleyan College in Norfolk, Virginia, entitled "From Jamestown to Jefferson: The Evolution of Religious Authority in Colonial Virginia." The symposium was sponsored by the college's Center for the Study of Religious Freedom.
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Slavery, Freedom, And Expansion In The Early American West

by John Craig Hammond

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 Examines how the demands of western settlers, the potential of western disunion, and local, popular politics determined the fate of slavery and freedom in the West between 1790 and 1820. This book demonstrates that local political contests and geopolitical realities were responsible for determining slavery's fate in the West.
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The Star-Spangled Republic - Political Astronomy And The Rise Of The American Constellation

by Eran Shalev

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The Gendered Republic - Reimagining Identity In The New Nation

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The Work Of The Heart - Young Women And Emotion, 1780-1830

by Martha Tomhave Blauvelt

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Revolutionary Negotiations - Indians, Empires, And Diplomats In The Founding Of America

by Leonard J. Sadosky

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The Star-Spangled Republic - Political Astronomy And The Rise Of The American Constellation

by Eran Shalev

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The Gendered Republic - Reimagining Identity In The New Nation

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The Making And Unmaking Of A Revolutionary Family - The Tuckers Of Virginia, 1752-1830

by Phillip Hamilton

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 Drawing upon an archive of private letters, journals and other manuscript materials, Philip Hamilton illustrates how two generations of a colourful and influential family adapted to social upheaval in late-18th and early-19th-century Virginia.
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The Scientist Turned Spy - Andre Michaux, Thomas Jefferson, And The Conspiracy Of 1793

by Patrick Spero

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 AndrÃ© Michaux was the most famous scientific explorer of North America before Lewis and Clark. But there is more to his story. Patrick Spero offers a bona fide page-turner that sheds new light on an incipient American political climate that fostered reckless diplomatic ventures under the guise of scientific exploration.
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Sacred Capital - Methodism And Settler Colonialism In The Empire Of Liberty

by Hunter Price

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 Following the contours of settler expansion, the Methodist Episcopal Church quickly became the largest denomination in the early American West. Hunter Price resituates the Methodist Episcopal Church as a settler-colonial institution at the convergence of â€˜the Methodist Ageâ€™ and Jeffersonâ€™s â€˜Empire of Libertyâ€™.
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Sacred Capital - Methodism And Settler Colonialism In The Empire Of Liberty

by Hunter Price

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 Resituates the Methodist Episcopal Church as a settler-colonial institution at the convergence of â€˜the Methodist Ageâ€™ and Jeffersonâ€™s â€˜Empire of Liberty.â€™ Hunter Price offers a novel interpretation of the Methodist Episcopal Church as a network through which white settlers exchanged news of land and jobs and facilitated financial transactions.
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Empire Of Commerce - The Closing Of The Mississippi And The Opening Of Atlantic Trade

by Susan Gaunt Stearns

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 Takes readers back to a time when there was nothing inevitable about the United Statesâ€™ untrammeled westward expansion. Susan Gaunt Stearnsâ€™ work demonstrates the centrality of trade on and along the Mississippi River to the complex development of the political and economic structures that shaped the nascent American republic.
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Empire Of Commerce - The Closing Of The Mississippi And The Opening Of Atlantic Trade

by Susan Gaunt Stearns

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 Takes readers back to a time when there was nothing inevitable about the United Statesâ€™ untrammeled westward expansion. This work demonstrates the centrality of trade on and along the Mississippi River to the complex development of the political and economic structures that shaped the nascent American republic.
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Black Reason, White Feeling - The Jeffersonian Enlightenment In The African American Tradition

by Hannah Spahn

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 The lofty Enlightenment principles articulated by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence did not emerge fully formed as a coherent set of ideas in the eighteenth century. As Hannah Spahn argues in this important book, no group had a more profound influence on their development and reception than Black intellectuals.
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In Search Of Justice In Thailandâ€™S Deep South - Malay Muslim And Thai Buddhist Womenâ€™S Narratives

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 The narratives collected here, primarily from women, testify that although violence has been generated from both sides of the Buddhist/Muslim divide, the actions undertaken by armed forces of the Thai Buddhist state - including repressive violence and torture - have served as a catalyst for increased Muslim insurgency.
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Jefferson On Display - Attire, Etiquette, And The Art Of Presentation

by G. S. Wilson

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 When we think of Thomas Jefferson, a certain picture comes to mind for some of us, combining his physical appearance with our perception of his character. G.S. Wilson draws on a broad array of sources to show how Jefferson fashioned his public persona to promote his political agenda.
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