Light & liberty : Thomas Jefferson and the power of knowledge / edited by Robert M.S. McDonald

Additional Titles: Thomas Jefferson and the power of knowledge
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Physical Description: xvii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators: McDonald, Robert M. S., 1970-

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Jeffersonian America

Contents

"The yeomanry of the United States are not the canaille of Paris" : Thomas Jefferson, American exceptionalism, and the "spirit" of democracy / Brian Steele -- "To diffuse knowledge more generally through the mass of the people" : Thomas Jefferson on individual freedom and the distribution of knowledge / Johann N. Neem -- Consistent in creation : Thomas Jefferson, natural aristocracy, and the problem of knowledge / Richard A. Samuelson -- The Jefferson gospel : a religious education of peace, reason, and morality / Cameron Addis -- West from West Point : Thomas Jefferson's military academy and the "empire of liberty" / Christine Coalwell McDonald and Robert M.S. McDonald -- Thomas Jefferson, colporteur of the enlightenment / Frank Shuffelton -- "Presenting to them models for their imitation" : Thomas Jefferson's reform of American architecture / Craig A. Reynolds -- Recording history : the Thomas Sully portrait of Thomas Jefferson / Gaye Wilson -- Afterword : light, liberty, and slavery / Joyce Appleby.

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9780813932361 (cloth : alk. paper)
081393236X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813932378 (e-book)
0813932378 (e-book)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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