The Mind of Thomas Jefferson by Peter S Onuf

The Mind of Thomas Jefferson by Peter S Onuf

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Offers a collection of essays that seeks to historicize one of our nation's founding fathers. Challenging attempts to appropriate Jefferson to serve all manner of contemporary political agendas, this work argues that historians must look at Jefferson's language and life within the context of his own place and time.

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The Mind of Thomas Jefferson by Peter S Onuf

Offers a collection of essays that seeks to historicize one of our nation's founding fathers. Challenging attempts to appropriate Jefferson to serve all manner of contemporary political agendas, this work argues that historians must look at Jefferson's language and life within the context of his own place and time.
Peter S. Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia, is author of Jeffersonian Legacies, Jeffersonis Empire: The Language of American Nationhood, and coauthor with Nicholas Onuf of Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War (all Virginia).
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ISBN 13 9780813926117
ISBN 10 0813926114
Title The Mind of Thomas Jefferson
Author Peter S Onuf
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of Virginia Press
Year published 2007-01-30
Number of pages 288
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