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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... colonial leaders resist high church forms and centralization of authority . Faith in the Church of England does not prevent local vestries from controlling their own religious institutions . Later , when difficulty over Virginia's state ...
... colonial leaders resist high church forms and centralization of authority . Faith in the Church of England does not prevent local vestries from controlling their own religious institutions . Later , when difficulty over Virginia's state ...
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... colonies . The discrepancy between political hope and scientific argument goes to the essence of changing colonial apprehensions . Challenges to colonial rights from England have begun to create the need for images and arguments of an ...
... colonies . The discrepancy between political hope and scientific argument goes to the essence of changing colonial apprehensions . Challenges to colonial rights from England have begun to create the need for images and arguments of an ...
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... colonial discourse . Mean- while , colonial leaders misconstrue parliamentary miscomprehension as a sign of corruption or worse . These compounding failures in cultural awareness deserve elaboration . While they do not mean that the ...
... colonial discourse . Mean- while , colonial leaders misconstrue parliamentary miscomprehension as a sign of corruption or worse . These compounding failures in cultural awareness deserve elaboration . While they do not mean that the ...
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What Is Enlightenment? Some American Answers | 22 |
Religious Voices | 44 |
Writing the Revolution | 80 |
Urheberrecht | |
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