Author: Massachusetts Society of the CincinnatiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Memorials of the Society of the Cincinnati of Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts Society of the CincinnatiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
A Republic of Righteousness
Author: Jonathan D SassiPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198029756
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
This book examines the debate over the connection between religion and public life in society during the fifty years following the American Revolution. Sassi challenges the conventional wisdom, finding an essential continuity to the period's public Christianity, whereas most previous studies have seen this period as one in which the nation's cultural paradigm shifted from republicanism to liberal individualism. Focusing on the Congregational clergy of New England, he demonstrates that throughout this period there were Americans concerned with their corporate destiny, retaining a commitment to constructing a righteous community and assessing the cosmic meaning of the American experiment.
American Bibliography: 1786-1789
Author: Charles EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876
Author: Nicholas GuyattPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521867887
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Nicholas Guyatt offers a completely new understanding of a central question in American history: how did Americans come to think that God favored the United States above other nations? Tracing the story of American providentialism, this book uncovers the British roots of American religious nationalism before the American Revolution and the extraordinary struggles of white Americans to reconcile their ideas of national mission with the racial diversity of the early republic. Making sense of previously diffuse debates on manifest destiny, millenarianism, and American mission, Providence and the Invention of the United States explains the origins and development of the idea that God has a special plan for America. This conviction supplied the United States with a powerful sense of national purpose, but it also prevented Americans from clearly understanding events and people that could not easily be fitted into the providential scheme.
American Honor
Author: Craig Bruce SmithPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469638843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
The American Revolution was not only a revolution for liberty and freedom, it was also a revolution of ethics, reshaping what colonial Americans understood as "honor" and "virtue." As Craig Bruce Smith demonstrates, these concepts were crucial aspects of Revolutionary Americans' ideological break from Europe and shared by all ranks of society. Focusing his study primarily on prominent Americans who came of age before and during the Revolution—notably John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington—Smith shows how a colonial ethical transformation caused and became inseparable from the American Revolution, creating an ethical ideology that still remains. By also interweaving individuals and groups that have historically been excluded from the discussion of honor—such as female thinkers, women patriots, slaves, and free African Americans—Smith makes a broad and significant argument about how the Revolutionary era witnessed a fundamental shift in ethical ideas. This thoughtful work sheds new light on a forgotten cause of the Revolution and on the ideological foundation of the United States.
Dictionary Catalog of the Rare Book Division
Author: New York Public Library. Rare Book DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.
Bulletin of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College
Author: Franklin Bowditch DexterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
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