Light & liberty : Thomas Jefferson and the power of knowledge / edited by Robert M.S. McDonald.
Uniform Title: | Jeffersonian America.
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Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2012.
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Series: | Jeffersonian America.
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Physical Description: | xvii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Variant Title: |
Light and liberty. [Other title]
Thomas Jefferson and the power of knowledge. |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- "The yeomanry of the United States are not the canaille of Paris" : Thomas Jefferson, American exceptionalism, and the "spirit" of democracy / Brian Steele
- "To diffuse knowledge more generally through the mass of the people" : Thomas Jefferson on individual freedom and the distribution of knowledge / Johann N. Neem
- Consistent in creation : Thomas Jefferson, natural aristocracy, and the problem of knowledge / Richard A. Samuelson
- The Jefferson gospel : a religious education of peace, reason, and morality / Cameron Addis
- West from West Point : Thomas Jefferson's military academy and the "empire of liberty" / Christine Coalwell McDonald and Robert M.S. McDonald
- Thomas Jefferson, colporteur of the enlightenment / Frank Shuffelton
- "Presenting to them models for their imitation" : Thomas Jefferson's reform of American architecture / Craig A. Reynolds
- Recording history : the Thomas Sully portrait of Thomas Jefferson / Gaye Wilson
- Afterword : light, liberty, and slavery / Joyce Appleby.