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The American enlightenment
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- Creator
- edited by Frank Shuffelton
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Rochester, N.Y. : University of Rochester Press, 1993
- Physical Details
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- xxiii, 400 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781878822246, 1878822241
- OCLC
- ocm27976836
- Includes bibliographical references.
- The alliance between Puritanism and Cartesian logic at Harvard, 1687-1735 / Rick Kennedy -- Immaterialism in Jonathan Edwards' early philosophical notes / Wallace E. Anderson -- Jonathan Edwards on rhetorical authority / Stephen R. Yarbrough -- Cotton Mather, physico-theologian / Jeffrey Jeske -- Irresistible compassion : an aspect of eighteenth-century sympathy and humanitarianism / Norman S. Fiering -- The idea of the savage in North American ethnohistory / David Bidney -- The American debate on the Negro's place in nature, 1780-1815 / John C. Greene -- Dr. Benjamin Rush and the Negro / Donald J. D'Elia -- Lockean ideas in Thomas Jefferson's Bill for establishing religious freedom / S. Gerald Sandler -- James Madison and the nature of man / Ralph L. Ketcham -- John Adams on "The best of all possible worlds" / Constance B. Schulz -- Joel Barlow, enlightened religionist / Joseph L. Blau -- The meaning of colonization in American revolutionary thought / Michael J. Kammen -- The American Revolution and Natural Law theory / Lester H. Cohen --
- Polybius and the American constitution / Gilbert Chinard -- Dutch and American federalism / William H. Riker -- James Madison and the Scottish Enlightenment / Roy Branson -- Jefferson on liberty / J.W. Cooke -- Jeffersonian revisions of Locke : education, property-rights, and liberty / David M. Post -- Benjamin Franklin and the penal laws / Marcello Maestro -- From liberalism to radicalism : Tom Paine's Rights of man / Gary Kates -- The young American nation and the classical world / Edwin A. Miles -- Noah Webster's linguistic thought and the idea of an American national culture / V.P. Bynack -- Parrington and the Jeffersonian tradition / Richard Hofstadter -- Between gog and magog : the republican thesis and the Ideologia Americana / J.G.A. Pocock
Subjects
- Enlightenment -- United States.
- Theology, Doctrinal -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
- Philosophy, American -- 18th century.
- Political science -- United States -- Philosophy -- History -- 18th century.
- United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
- United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865.