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John Witherspoon's American Revolution

Title
John Witherspoon's American Revolution [electronic resource] / Gideon Mailer.
Author
Mailer, Gideon.
Publication
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

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Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Description
1 online resource (viii, 425 pages) : illustrations.
Uniform Title
John Witherspoon's American Revolution (Online)
Alternative Title
John Witherspoon's American Revolution (Online)
Subject
  • Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794
  • United States. > Signers > Biography
  • United States. Continental Congress > History
  • Princeton University > History > 18th century
  • Presbyterian Church > United States > Clergy > Biography
  • Statesmen > United States > Biography
  • Church and state > United States > History
  • United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783
  • United States > Politics and government > 1775-1783
Note
  • "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Introduction: Enlightenment and religion between Scotland and America -- "A road to distinction very different from that of his more successful companions": Augustinian piety in Witherspoon's Scotland -- "Of local and temporary reformation, local and occasional depravation": Kirk divisions and American prospects at midcentury -- "The bulwark of the religion and liberty of America": Presbyterian revivalism and American higher education before Witherspoon -- "All the conclusions drawn from these principles must be vague": American moral philosophy after Witherspoon -- "When their fathers have fallen asleep": domestic culture, public virtue, and the power of language -- "Every one of them full of the old Cameronian resisting sentiments": piety, Anglo-Scottish union, and American independence -- "How far the magistrate ought to interfere in matters of religion": public faith and the ambiguity of political representation after 1776 -- "The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man": John Witherspoon, James Madison, and the American founding" -- "Great things hath God done for his American Zion": Presbyterian moral philosophy and educational conflict during the nineteenth century.
LCCN
2016024829
OCLC
ssj0001746333
Author
Mailer, Gideon.
Title
John Witherspoon's American Revolution [electronic resource] / Gideon Mailer.
Imprint
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
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