The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820Harvard University Press, 1997 - 220 halaman This concise literary history of the American Enlightenment captures the varied and conflicting voices of religious and political conviction in the decades when the new nation was formed. Robert Ferguson's trenchant interpretation yields new understanding of this pivotal period for American culture. |
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... century legacies more obviously and deci- sively than in America . Continental intellectuals in particular have these devastations in mind and look less to an advance of freedom than to the threat of new kinds of institutional ...
... century legacies more obviously and deci- sively than in America . Continental intellectuals in particular have these devastations in mind and look less to an advance of freedom than to the threat of new kinds of institutional ...
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... century , radical Protestants in eighteenth - century America know how to oppose a king . Jonathan Mayhew's approval of " the Resistance made to King Charles I " in A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission ( 1750 ) is shocking to his ...
... century , radical Protestants in eighteenth - century America know how to oppose a king . Jonathan Mayhew's approval of " the Resistance made to King Charles I " in A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission ( 1750 ) is shocking to his ...
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... century culture and in the Revolution in particular . The highly polemical and topical nature of such writing , together with the natural responsiveness of pamphlets , one to another , make them the center of the contrapuntal ...
... century culture and in the Revolution in particular . The highly polemical and topical nature of such writing , together with the natural responsiveness of pamphlets , one to another , make them the center of the contrapuntal ...
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What Is Enlightenment? Some American Answers | 22 |
Religious Voices | 44 |
Writing the Revolution | 80 |
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