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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Steele, Brian Douglas (1970-....)
Titre(s) : Thomas Jefferson and American nationhood [Texte imprimé] / Brian Steele
Publication : Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,, 2012.
Description matérielle : xiii, 321 pages ; 24 cm
Collection : Cambridge studies on the American South
Lien à la collection : Cambridge studies on the American South
Comprend : Introduction: Jefferson's America ; 1. American story ; 2. American woman ; 3. American
character ; 4. American public ; 5. American state ; 6. American union ; Epilogue:
America's Jefferson.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"This book emphasises the centrality of nationhood to Thomas Jefferson's thought and
politics, envisioning Jefferson as a cultural nationalist whose political project
sought the alignment of the American state system with the will and character of the
nation. Jefferson believed that America was the one nation on earth able to realise
in practice universal ideals to which other peoples could only aspire. He appears
in the book as the essential narrator of what he once called the 'American Story':
as the historian, the sociologist and the ethnographer; the political theorist of
the nation; the most successful practitioner of its politics; and its most enthusiastic
champion. The book argues that reorienting Jefferson around the concept of American
nationhood recovers an otherwise easily missed coherence to his political career and
helps make sense of a number of conundrums in his thought and practice"--
Sujet(s) : Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) -- Pensée politique et sociale
Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) -- Philosophie
Politique et gouvernement -- États-Unis -- Philosophie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107020702. - ISBN 1107020700
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42745248j
Notice n° :
FRBNF42745248
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