Thomas Jefferson and American Nationhood
$226.80
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
30 July 2012
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781107020702 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1107020700 |
| Author: | Brian Steele |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 30 July 2012 |
| Weight: | 690g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 157mm x 28mm |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies on the American South |
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‘Steele’s Jefferson is much more complicated than a provincial Virginia planter with a cosmopolitan twist; he is the consummate architect of American nationalism precisely because he imagined and articulated a powerful understanding of Americans as a special people - a cultural and political nation - whose unique character transcended region or class and had universal significance.’ Drew R. McCoy, Journal of Southern History
About The Author
Brian Steele
Brian Steele is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. His work has appeared in the Journal of American History and the Journal of Southern History.
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