Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution (Jeffersonian America)
Michal Jan Rozbicki
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Description for Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution (Jeffersonian America)
Paperback. Series: Jeffersonian America. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
In his new book, Michal Jan Rozbicki undertakes to bridge the gap between the political and the cultural histories of the American Revolution. Through a careful examination of liberty as both the ideological axis and the central metaphor of the age, he is able to offer a fresh model for interpreting the Revolution. By establishing systemic linkages between the histories of the free and the unfree, and between the factual and the symbolic, this framework points to a fundamental reassessment of the ways we think about the American Founding.
Rozbicki moves beyond the two dominant interpretations of Revolutionary liberty—one ... Read more
In his new book, Michal Jan Rozbicki undertakes to bridge the gap between the political and the cultural histories of the American Revolution. Through a careful examination of liberty as both the ideological axis and the central metaphor of the age, he is able to offer a fresh model for interpreting the Revolution. By establishing systemic linkages between the histories of the free and the unfree, and between the factual and the symbolic, this framework points to a fundamental reassessment of the ways we think about the American Founding.
Rozbicki moves beyond the two dominant interpretations of Revolutionary liberty—one ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Jeffersonian America
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813934136
SKU
V9780813934136
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About Michal Jan Rozbicki
Michal Jan Rozbicki is the author of The Complete Colonial Gentleman: Cultural Legitimacy in Plantation America (Virginia). He teaches early American history at Saint Louis University, USA.
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