John Adams & The Prophets of Progress / Zoltán Haraszti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haraszti, Zoltán, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adams, John, 1735-1826.

Political science--History.

Local Subjects:

Adams, John, 1735-1826.

Political science--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 p.): 1 Frontispiz

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Illustrations

[ I ] No Statues or Monuments

[ II ] John Adams among His Books

[ III ] A dams' s Political Philosophy

[ IV ] Bolingbroke, the Ishmael of His Age

[ V ] Rousseau and the Man of Nature

[ VI ] Frederick, Voltaire and d' Alembert

[ VII ] The Communism of the Abbé de Mably

[ VIII ] Turgot's Attack on the American Constitutions

[ IX ] The Composition of Adams' s Defence

[ Χ ] Lessons from the Civil Wars of France

[ XI ] The French Revolution

[ XII ] Condorcet and the Idea of Progress

[ XIII ] Napoleon' s Bid for a Continental Alliance

[ XIV ] Dr, Priestley and Other English Divines

[ XV ] The Constant Reader

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-49717-1

OCLC:

1013936286