Title Ambition, a history : from vice to virtue / William Casey King.

Publication Info.	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
	©2013

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Description	1 online resource (viii, 248 pages : illustrations)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-234) and index.
Contents	From vice to Christian sin -- Ambition as sin in early modern English culture : Perilous acts of self-elevation, Subversive acts of self-negation -- The plague and countervailing passions -- Harnessing ambition in the age of exploration -- Epilogue.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	United States -- Civilization -- To 1783.
	United States.
	Civilization.
Chronological Term	To 1783
Subject	Ambition -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
	Ambition.
	History.
	Ambition -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
	Social aspects.
	National characteristics, American -- History.
	National characteristics, American.
	Christianity and culture -- United States -- History.
	Christianity and culture.
	Social values -- United States -- History.
	Social values.
	Social change -- United States -- History.
	Social change.
	England -- Civilization.
	England.
	Ambition -- Social aspects -- England -- History.
	Christianity and culture -- England -- History.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: King, Casey (William Casey). Ambition, a history. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013] 9780300182804 (DLC) 2012034912 (OCoLC)785865105
ISBN	0300189842 (electronic book)
	9780300189841 (electronic book)
	9780300182804 (clothbound ; alkaline paper)
	0300182805 (clothbound ; alkaline paper)

Title Ambition, a history : from vice to virtue / William Casey King.

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