Light & liberty [electronic resource] : Thomas Jefferson and the power of knowledge / edited by Robert M.S. McDonald.

Contributor(s): McDonald, Robert M. S, 1970- | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Jeffersonian AmericaPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012Description: xvii, 232 p. : illISBN: 9780813932378 (electronic bk.)Other title: Thomas Jefferson and the power of knowledge | Light and libertySubject(s): Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Political and social views | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Knowledge and learning | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- InfluenceGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 973.4/6092 LOC classification: E332.2 | .L54 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
"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.
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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.

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