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Thomas Jefferson and American Nationhood

Thomas Jefferson and American Nationhood

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South

19th Century United States History

ISBN10: 1107020700
ISBN13: 9781107020702
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jul 30 2012
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Awards: George Washington Book Prize
This book emphasizes the centrality of nationhood to Thomas Jefferson's thought and politics, envisioning Jefferson as a cultural nationalist whose political project sought the alignment of the American state system with the will and character of the nation. Jefferson believed that America was the one nation on earth able to realize in practice universal ideals to which other peoples could only aspire. He appears in the book as the essential narrator of what he once called the American Story as the historian, the sociologist, and the ethnographer; the political theorist of the nation; the most successful practitioner of its politics; and its most enthusiastic champion. The book argues that reorienting Jefferson around the concept of American nationhood recovers an otherwise easily missed coherence to his political career and helps make sense of a number of conundrums in his thought and practice.

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