A Companion to Thomas Jefferson (eBook)

Francis D. Cogliano (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-4461-5 (ISBN)

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A Companion to Thomas Jefferson presents a state-of-the-art assessment and overview of the life and legacy of Thomas Jefferson through a collection of essays grounded in the latest scholarship.

• Features essays by the leading scholars in the field, including Pulitzer Prize winners Annette Gordon-Reed and Jack Rakove
• Includes a section that considers Jefferson’s legacy
• Explores Jefferson’s wide range of interests and expertise, and covers his public career, private life, his views on democracy, and his writings
• Written to be accessible for the non-specialist as well as Jefferson scholars
  

Francis D. Cogliano is Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh. A specialist in the history of revolutionary and early national America, Cogliano is the author or editor of several books on American history, including Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy (2006) and Revolutionary America: A Political History (2000, 2009).

Inhalt

List of Figures and Tables x

Notes on Contributors xi

Abbreviations xvii

Introduction xix

Francis D. Cogliano

PART I JEFFERSON'S LIFE AND TIMES 1

1 Jefferson and Biography 3

Annette Gordon-Reed

2 Jefferson's Virginia 16

Michael A. McDonnell

3 Thomas Jefferson and A Summary View of the Rights of
British North America 32

Kristofer Ray

4 The Declaration of Independence 44

Robert G. Parkinson

5 "I have known": Thomas Jefferson, Experience, and
Notes on the State of Virginia 60

Peter Thompson

6 The Virginia Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom
75

John A. Ragosta

7 A Republican Reformation: Thomas Jefferson's Civil
Religion and the Separation of Church from State 91

Johann N.Neem

8 The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson 110

Iain McLean

9 Jefferson as Party Leader 128

Todd Estes

10 A Qualified Revolution: The Presidential Election of 1800
145

Joanne B. Freeman

11 The (Federalist?) Presidency of Thomas Jefferson 164

Robert M.S. McDonald

12 From "Floating Ardor" to the "Union of
Sentiment": Jefferson on the Relationship between Public
Opinion and the Executive 184

Jeremy D. Bailey

13 Jefferson and International Relations 199

Leonard J. Sadosky

14 Jefferson in Retirement 218

Andrew Burstein

PART II THEMES 235

15 Thomas Jefferson and Native Americans 237

Andrew Cayton

16 Thomas Jefferson: Planter and Farmer 253

Lucia Stanton

17 Thomas Jefferson and Slavery 271

Cassandra Pybus

18 Sally Hemings 284

Catherine Kerrison

19 Thomas Jefferson and Affairs of the Heart 301

Billy L. Wayson

20 Thomas Jefferson and John Adams 318

Richard Samuelson

21 The Libraries of Thomas Jefferson 333

Kevin J. Hayes

22 Jefferson and the Law 349

David Thomas Konig

23 Thomas Jefferson, Cosmopolitanism, and the Enlightenment
364

Hannah Spahn

24 Thomas Jefferson and the Ancient World 380

Caroline Winterer

25 Jefferson and American Democracy 397

Peter S. Onuf

26 Thomas Jefferson and Constitutionalism 419

R.B. Bernstein

27 Political Economy 439

Max M. Edling

28 Jefferson and Education 457

Cameron Addis

PART III LEGACY 475

29 History, Politics, and the Self: Jefferson's
"Anas" and Autobiography 477

Matthew E. Crow

30 "For Generations to Come": Creating the
"Definitive" Jefferson Edition 491

Barbara B. Oberg and James P. McClure

31 Preservation and Education: Monticello and the Thomas
Jefferson Foundation 510

Francis D. Cogliano

32 Jefferson's Legacy: The Nation as Interpretative
Community 526

Brian Steele

33 Thomas Jefferson in the Twenty-First Century 551

Jack N. Rakove

Bibliography 567

Index 595

Rezensionen

"A marvelous collection of authoritative and well-written
essays on nearly every aspect of Jefferson's life and legacy.
Compiling and editing the works of such a variety of scholars is no
easy task, and Frank D. Cogliano deserves the highest
praise." (Expofairs, 14 May 2013)

"A marvelous collection of authoritative and well-written
essays on nearly every aspect of Jefferson's life and legacy.
Compiling and editing the works of such a variety of scholars is no
easy task, and Frank D. Cogliano deserves the highest
praise." - Gordon S. Wood, Brown
University



"No American president cared more about posterity's
judgment than Thomas Jefferson. This kaleidoscopic collection, by
an all-star cast of scholars, is the most comprehensive historical
assessment of him ever undertaken." - David Armitage,
Harvard University, author of The Declaration of Independence: A
Global History

"Deftly edited by Francis D. Cogliano, A Companion to Thomas
Jefferson explores the greatest mystery in American history:
Who was Thomas Jefferson? Brilliant, elusive, and
contradictory, Jefferson compels and confounds as a key to our
national origins and to our enduring dilemmas in politics and
race. In this comprehensive collection of vivid essays, a
stellar cast of leading scholars offers compelling new insights
that enrich our understanding of the most mercurial of our
founders." - Alan Taylor, University of California,
Davis

"Frank Cogliano has brought together the leading specialists
to create an invaluable and authoritative collection of essays for
anyone interested in the most current scholarship on Thomas
Jefferson. It covers a wide array of different aspects of his
life and legacy including coverage of his role as a plantation
manager and slavery at Monticello. It will help to navigate
readers through the overwhelming secondary literature and to offer
greater clarity about the man who many regard as the most elusive
of the Founding Fathers." - Dr. Andrew Jackson
O'Shaughnessy, Robert H. Smith International Center for
Jefferson Studies at Monticello

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to American History
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to American History
• Reihe/Serie: Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 18th Century America • Amerika im 18. Jahrhundert • Founding fathers, Sally Hemings, Declaration of Independence, Federalist, Continental Congress, American revolution, Jefferson’s legacy, Democracy, Native Americans, British America • Geschichte • History • Jefferson, Thomas
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-4461-7 / 1444344617
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-4461-5 / 9781444344615