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Light & liberty : Thomas Jefferson and the power of knowledge / edited by Robert M.S. McDonald.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Jeffersonian America.
- Jeffersonian America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Political and social views.
- Jefferson, Thomas.
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Knowledge and learning.
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Influence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Thomas Jefferson and the power of knowledge
- Light and liberty
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Never wavering from his faith that "knowledge is power," Jefferson embraced an expansive understanding of education as the foundation for a republic of free and responsible individuals who understood their rights and stood ready to defend them.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613584649
- 9781280489419
- 1280489413
- 9780813932378
- 0813932378
- OCLC:
- 797817533
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