| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
Thomas Jefferson and thepower of knowledge |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
McDonaldRobert M. S., 1970- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Charlottesville |
| Published: |
University of Virginia Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
2012 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xvii, 232 p.)ill. : |
| Series: |
Jeffersonian America |
| Personal Subject: |
Jefferson - Thomas - Influence - |
| Personal Subject: |
Jefferson - Thomas - Knowledge and learning - |
| Personal Subject: |
Jefferson - Thomas - Political and social views - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813932378/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: |
9780813932378electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0813932378electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780813932361hbk. |
| ISBN: |
081393236Xhbk. |
| Content Note: |
"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 |