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The Mind of Thomas Jefferson
Peter S. Onuf
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Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
In ""The Mind of Thomas Jefferson"", one of the foremost historians of Jefferson and his time, Peter S. Onuf, offers a collection of essays that seeks to historicize one of our nation's founding fathers. Challenging current attempts to appropriate Jefferson to serve all manner of contemporary political agendas, Onuf argues that historians must look at Jefferson's language and life within the context of his own place and time. In this effort to restore Jefferson to his own world, Onuf reconnects that world to ours, providing a fresh look at the distinction between private and public aspects of his character that ... Read more
In ""The Mind of Thomas Jefferson"", one of the foremost historians of Jefferson and his time, Peter S. Onuf, offers a collection of essays that seeks to historicize one of our nation's founding fathers. Challenging current attempts to appropriate Jefferson to serve all manner of contemporary political agendas, Onuf argues that historians must look at Jefferson's language and life within the context of his own place and time. In this effort to restore Jefferson to his own world, Onuf reconnects that world to ours, providing a fresh look at the distinction between private and public aspects of his character that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813926117
SKU
V9780813926117
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About Peter S. Onuf
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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