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Reading the early republic / Robert A. Ferguson.
LIBRA E209 .F46 2004
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferguson, Robert A., 1942-2017.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political culture--United States--History--18th century--Historiography.
- Political culture.
- Political culture--United States--History--18th century--Sources.
- English language--Rhetoric.
- English language.
- English language--Style.
- Criticism, Textual.
- History.
- Historiography.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Historiography.
- United States.
- United States--History--1783-1815--Historiography.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Sources.
- United States--History--1783-1815--Sources.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- x, 358 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- Rebellion, slavery, and treason--the mingled stories of the Revolution--still haunt national thought. Ferguson shows that the legacy that made the country remains the idea of what it is still trying to become. He also has much to say about the reconfiguration of charity in American life, the vital role of the classical ideal in projecting an unthinkable continental republic, the first manipulations of the independent American woman, and the troubled integration of civic and commercial understandings in the original claims of prosperity as national virtue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-351) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674013387
- OCLC:
- 53992876
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