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Revolutionary prophecies : the founders and America's future

Title

Revolutionary prophecies : the founders and America's future / edited by Robert M. S. McDonald and Peter S. Onuf.

Author

Revolutionary Prophecies (Conference) (2013 : Saint Louis, Missouri)

Publication

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.
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Description

xi, 280 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Collections of essays often struggle to cohere, but the thesis of "Revolutionary Prophecies" is clear. Traditionally, the term "revolution" suggested circular motion: the rise and fall of classical republics and modern dynasties followed the same inevitable pattern. The American Revolution promised to change everything, liberating a newly self-conscious and self-governing people from the thralldom of foreign despotism. As the circle became a line, the people could envision a future for their grandchildren's grandchildren, stretching across the generations to a distant horizon. The essays in "Revolutionary Prophecies" hone in on a diverse cast of characters from the Founding generation-luminaries like George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and James Monroe, but also less prominent people such as printer and antiquarian Isaiah Thomas, backcountry rebels, and American Indians. All of them, in different ways, reveal that how we understand the past and present shapes our hopes, ambitions, and anxieties about the future"--

Series Statement

Jeffersonian America

Uniform Title

Jeffersonian America.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies.
History.
Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Raconteur, Memorialist, Founder: Benjamin Franklin Meets Himself in History / Robert A. Ferguson -- Yankee Continentalism: The Provincial Roots of John Adams's Vision for American Union, 1755-1776 / J. Patrick Mullins -- George Washington's Vision for the United States / Kenneth R. Bowling -- Agrarian Founders: Three "Rebellions" as Legitimate Opposition, 1786-1799 / Paul Douglas Newman -- The Sovereign People: Indians, Treaties, and the Subversion of the Founders' Colonialist Vision / David Andrew Nichols -- "Arraying Him against Himself": The Jefferson Presidency and the American Future through the Eyes of Alexander Hamilton / Todd Estes -- James Madison and American Nationality: The View from Virginia / Drew R. McCoy -- Mastery over Slaves, Sovereignty over Slavery: James Monroe, Virginia, and the Missouri Crisis / John Craig Hammond -- Antiquarian America: Isaiah Thomas and the New Nation's Future / Peter S. Onuf -- Afterword: The Contradictions and Paradoxes of American Future-Gazing / Joanne B. Freeman.

Call Number

JFE 21-4112

ISBN

9780813944494
081394449X

LCCN

2020039801
40030364503

OCLC

1151813778

Conference

Revolutionary Prophecies (Conference) (2013 : Saint Louis, Missouri)

Title

Revolutionary prophecies : the founders and America's future / edited by Robert M. S. McDonald and Peter S. Onuf.

Publisher

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Jeffersonian America

Jeffersonian America.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

ED: UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY.

Chronological Term

1700-1809

Added Author

McDonald, Robert M. S., 1970- editor.

Onuf, Peter S., editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Revolutionary prophecies Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020 9780813945002 (DLC) 2020039802

Other Standard Identifier

40030364503

Research Call Number

JFE 21-4112

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