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John Witherspoon's American Revolution / Gideon Mailer.
Van Pelt Library E302.6.W7 M35 2017
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mailer, Gideon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794.
- Witherspoon, John.
- United States. Declaration of Independence--Signers--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Continental Congress--History.
- Princeton University--History--18th century.
- Princeton University.
- United States. Continental Congress.
- Presbyterian Church--United States--Clergy--Biography.
- Presbyterian Church.
- History.
- Clergy.
- Statesmen--United States--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
- United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.
- Politics and government.
- Church and state--United States--History.
- Church and state.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 425 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Enlightenment and religion between Scotland and America
- "A road to distinction very different from that of his more successful companions": Augustinian piety in Witherspoon's Scotland
- "Of local and temporary reformation, local and occasional depravation": Kirk divisions and American prospects at midcentury
- "The bulwark of the religion and liberty of America": Presbyterian revivalism and American higher education before Witherspoon
- "All the conclusions drawn from these principles must be vague": American moral philosophy after Witherspoon
- "When their fathers have fallen asleep": domestic culture, public virtue, and the power of language
- "Every one of them full of the old Cameronian resisting sentiments": piety, Anglo-Scottish union, and American independence
- "How far the magistrate ought to interfere in matters of religion": public faith and the ambiguity of political representation after 1776
- "The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man": John Witherspoon, James Madison, and the American Zion": Presbyterian moral philosophy and educational conflict during the nineteenth century.
- Notes:
- "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469628189
- 146962818X
- OCLC:
- 951190457
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