The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820Harvard University Press, 1997 - 220 Seiten This concise literary history of the American Enlightenment captures the varied and conflicting voices of religious and political conviction in the decades when the new nation was formed. Robert Ferguson's trenchant interpretation yields new understanding of this pivotal period for American culture. |
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... British actions - from the Revenue Act , or Sugar Act , of 1764 , to the Stamp Act and the Troop Quartering Act of 1765 , to the Townshend Reve- nue Acts of 1767 , to the Tea Act of 1773 , to the Intolerable Acts , including the bill ...
... British actions - from the Revenue Act , or Sugar Act , of 1764 , to the Stamp Act and the Troop Quartering Act of 1765 , to the Townshend Reve- nue Acts of 1767 , to the Tea Act of 1773 , to the Intolerable Acts , including the bill ...
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... British authority grows , colonial theorists come to see Bland's distinction as one without a difference , but it is an important rallying cry in the 1760s . Bland struggles to remain a good British - American subject by leaving the ...
... British authority grows , colonial theorists come to see Bland's distinction as one without a difference , but it is an important rallying cry in the 1760s . Bland struggles to remain a good British - American subject by leaving the ...
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... British response . The pamphlets of the late 1760s and early 1770s illustrate the shift in orientation . When " Britannus Americanus , " writing in the Boston Gazette in March of 1766 , finds the same love of freedom and ...
... British response . The pamphlets of the late 1760s and early 1770s illustrate the shift in orientation . When " Britannus Americanus , " writing in the Boston Gazette in March of 1766 , finds the same love of freedom and ...
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What Is Enlightenment? Some American Answers | 22 |
Religious Voices | 44 |
Writing the Revolution | 80 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Adams's African Americans American Enlightenment American Revolution Anglo-American argument Articles Articles of Confederation assertion authority Benjamin Rush Boston Boston-Gazette British citizen claim clergy colonial Common Sense conflict Congress Constitution Convention culture dangers debate Declaration of Independence Dickinson discourse document dominate early Republic early republican Edmund Randolph eighteenth-century election sermon England English essay European expression fear Federal Federalist frame Franklin freedom God's human ideas identity intellectual Jefferson John Adams king language leaders letter liberty literary Madison Massachusetts ment Mercy Otis Warren metaphor mind minister narrative Native-American nature original Otis Paine Paine's pamphlet Parliament philosophical political protest question radical reason rebellion religion religious revivalism revolutionary rhetoric secular Seider slave slavery Sons of Liberty Stamp Act star-spangled banner Summary View symbol tion truth understanding union University Press Venture Smith Virginia virtue voice Washington Whig women words writing
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