Light & liberty Thomas Jefferson and the power of knowledge /

Light & liberty Thomas Jefferson and the power of knowledge / [electronic resource] : Thomas Jefferson and the power of knowledge Light and liberty edited by Robert M.S. McDonald. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012. - xvii, 232 p. : ill. - Jeffersonian America . - Jeffersonian America. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The yeomanry of the United States are not the canaille of Paris" : Thomas Jefferson, American exceptionalism, and the "spirit" of democracy / Brian Steele -- "To diffuse knowledge more generally through the mass of the people" : Thomas Jefferson on individual freedom and the distribution of knowledge / Johann N. Neem -- Consistent in creation : Thomas Jefferson, natural aristocracy, and the problem of knowledge / Richard A. Samuelson -- The Jefferson gospel : a religious education of peace, reason, and morality / Cameron Addis -- West from West Point : Thomas Jefferson's military academy and the "empire of liberty" / Christine Coalwell McDonald and Robert M.S. McDonald -- Thomas Jefferson, colporteur of the enlightenment / Frank Shuffelton -- "Presenting to them models for their imitation" : Thomas Jefferson's reform of American architecture / Craig A. Reynolds -- Recording history : the Thomas Sully portrait of Thomas Jefferson / Gaye Wilson -- Afterword : light, liberty, and slavery / Joyce Appleby.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780813932378 (electronic bk.)




Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 --Political and social views.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 --Knowledge and learning.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 --Influence.


Electronic books.

E332.2 / .L54 2012

973.4/6092