Book contents
- Thomas Jefferson
- Cambridge Studies on the American South
- Frontispiece
- Thomas Jefferson
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Methods and Bibliography
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Lincoln and Historiography
- 3 Let Our Workshops Remain at Monticello
- 4 Life, Liberty, Property, and Peace
- 5 What is Genius? “Openness, Brilliance, and Leadership”
- 6 A Renaissance Man in the Age of the Enlightenment
- 7 Baconism and Natural Science
- 8 Anthropology and Ethnic Cleansing: White “Rubbish,” Blacks, and Indians
- 9 Education, Religion, and Social Control
- 10 Women and the Count of Monticello
- 11 Debt, Deference, and Consumption
- 12 Defining the Presidency
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 April 2019
Book contents
- Thomas Jefferson
- Cambridge Studies on the American South
- Frontispiece
- Thomas Jefferson
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Methods and Bibliography
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Lincoln and Historiography
- 3 Let Our Workshops Remain at Monticello
- 4 Life, Liberty, Property, and Peace
- 5 What is Genius? “Openness, Brilliance, and Leadership”
- 6 A Renaissance Man in the Age of the Enlightenment
- 7 Baconism and Natural Science
- 8 Anthropology and Ethnic Cleansing: White “Rubbish,” Blacks, and Indians
- 9 Education, Religion, and Social Control
- 10 Women and the Count of Monticello
- 11 Debt, Deference, and Consumption
- 12 Defining the Presidency
- Index
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- Thomas JeffersonA Modern Prometheus, pp. xi - xvPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019