Thomas Jefferson - A Modern Prometheus

Provides a critical and controversial re-assessment of Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian influence by a leading intellectual historian.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Wilson Jeremiah Moses is Professor Emeritus at Pennsylvania State University and the author of six books: The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850–1925 (1978); Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms: Social and Literary Manipulations of a Religious Myth (1982); Alexander Crummell: A Study in Civilization and Discontent (1989); The Wings of Ethiopia: Studies in African-American Life and Letters (1990); Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History (Cambridge, 1998); and Creative Conflict in African American Thought (Cambridge, 2004).

Product details

• Authors: Wilson Jeremiah Moses, Wilson Jeremiah (Pennsylvania State Univers Moses, Wilson Jeremiah (Pennsylvania State University) Moses
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.12.2023
• EAN: 9781108456876
• ISBN: 978-1-108-45687-6
• No. of pages: 522
• Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, Political leaders & leadership, History of the Americas, History and Archaeology, Political leaders and leadership, Central Southern States, US South