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Author Gummere, Richard M. (Richard Mott), 1883-1969.

Title The American colonial mind and the classical tradition; essays in comparative culture.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1963.

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 Moore Stacks  E162 .G88    Available  ---
Description xiii, 228 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Bibliography and notes: pages 201-223.
Contents Classical background of the colonial mind -- Virginia Argonauts -- Novanglia: church, state, and the classics -- Colonial reactions to a classical education -- William Byrd and Samuel Sewall: two diarists in the ancient tradition -- Colonies, ancient and modern -- Logan, Franklin, Bartram: humanist, pragmatist, platonist -- Transatlantic muse -- Jonathan Boucher, Toryissimus -- Classical ancestry of the Constitution -- Epilogue: Adams and Jefferson.
Subject United States -- Civilization -- To 1783.
United States.
Civilization.
Chronological Term To 1783
Subject United States -- Civilization -- Classical influences.
États-Unis -- Civilisation.
États-Unis -- Civilisation -- Influence grecque.
États-Unis -- Civilisation -- Influence romaine.

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