Light and liberty
Subtitle: Thomas Jefferson and the power of knowledge
By: edited by Robert M.S. McDonald
Series: Jeffersonian America
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780813932361; 9780813932378
Subjects: Knowledge and learning; Influence; Political and social views
Other titles: Thomas Jefferson and the power of knowledge
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The yeomanry of the United States are not the canaille of Paris" : Thomas Jefferson, American exceptionalism, and the "spirit" of democracy / Brian Steele; title: "To diffuse knowledge more generally through the mass of the people" : Thomas Jefferson on individual freedom and the distribution of knowledge / Johann N. Neem; title: Consistent in creation : Thomas Jefferson, natural aristocracy, and the problem of knowledge / Richard A. Samuelson; title: The Jefferson gospel : a religious education of peace, reason, and morality / Cameron Addis; title: West from West Point : Thomas Jefferson's military academy and the "empire of liberty" / Christine Coalwell McDonald and Robert M.S. McDonald; title: Thomas Jefferson, colporteur of the enlightenment / Frank Shuffelton; title: "Presenting to them models for their imitation" : Thomas Jefferson's reform of American architecture / Craig A. Reynolds; title: Recording history : the Thomas Sully portrait of Thomas Jefferson / Gaye Wilson; title: Afterword : light, liberty, and slavery / Joyce Appleby.