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1 online resource (269 pages). |
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American Studies - A Monograph Series ; v. 238
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American Studies - A Monograph Series.
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Acknowledgments; Preface; HANNAH SPAHN Introduction; GORDON S. WOOD The Invention of the United States; ARMIN MATTES "Une et indivisible"? Thomas Jefferson and Destutt de Tracy on the Idea of the Nation; THOMAS CLARK "Beware the wit of Voltaire": Benjamin Rush and the Limits of American Cosmopolitanism; MAURIZIO VALSANIA Beyond Particularism: Thomas Jefferson' s Republican Community; HANNAH SPAHN Cosmopolitan Imperfections: Jefferson, Nationhood, and the Republic of Letters; GAYE WILSON Thomas Jefferson and Creating an Image for a New Nation. |
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FRANCIS D. COGLIANO A "Philosophical vedette": William Dunbar, Thomas Jefferson, and the Republic of LettersCATRIN GERSDORF Early American Cool: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and the Affective Foundation of Republican Government; PHILIPP ZIESCHE American Exceptionalism: Cosmopolitanism by Another Name; PETER S. ONUF Cosmopolitanism and Nationhood in the Age of Jefferson: Epilogue; Contributors. |
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'Cosmopolitanism and Nationhood in the Age of Jefferson' explores the origins of modern conceptions of world citizenship and the nation in Jeffersonian America. In today's discussions of a transnational world, cosmopolitanism tends to be understood as a potential antidote to problematic aspects of nationhood - indeed, cosmopolitanism is often treated as a direct antonym of nationalism. From the perspective of the eighteenth century, however, such an understanding would hardly be self-evident: for Thomas Jefferson and many of his peers in the late Enlightenment, it was possible to conceive of t. |
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Political and social views.
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. |
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Political and social views. |
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Cosmopolitanism.
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Cosmopolitanism. |
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Nation-state.
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Nation-state. |
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Electronic books.
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Spahn, Hannah.
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Print version: Nicolaisen, Peter. Cosmopolitanism and Nationhood in the Age of Jefferson. Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, ©2014 9783825362386 |
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3825374149 |
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9783825374143 (electronic book) |
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3825362388 |
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9783825362386 |
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