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The rising glory of America, 1760-1820

Title
The rising glory of America, 1760-1820 / edited, with introduction and notes by Gordon S. Wood.
Author
Wood, Gordon S.
Publication
  • New York: G. Braziller, [1971]
  • ©1971

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Description
xii, 403 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Series Statement
The American culture, 2
Uniform Title
American culture ; 2.
Subject
  • To 1865
  • Geschichte 1760-1820
  • Civilization
  • Kultur
  • United States > Civilization > To 1783
  • United States > Civilization > 1783-1865
  • United States > Civilization > Sources
  • United States
  • USA
  • USA
Genre/Form
Sources.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [401]-403.
Contents
New world enlightenment -- On the feudal and the Canon law / John Adams -- The kingdom of god in America -- A treatise on the millennium / Samuel Hopkins -- The need for virtue -- An oration, delivered July 4th, 1783 / John Warren -- Church and state -- A door opened for equal Christian liberty / Isaac Backus -- Republican religion -- The Kentucky revival / Richard McNemar -- Organizing for morality -- A Masonic Eulogy / Thaddeus Mason Harris -- The Columbia moral society -- Messages of morality -- Broadsides -- Republican barbarism -- Stranger in America / Charles William Janson -- The problem of luxury -- The Sans Souci Club -- Education -- On the education of youth in America / Noah Webster -- A gentleman's library / Thomas Jefferson -- The federalist Augustan age -- Sun-beams may be extracted from cucumbers, but the process is tedious / David Daggett -- American scenes -- Rational amusement -- The science of nature / Charles Wilson Peale -- The American medical revolution -- The comparative state of medicine in the Revolutionary Era / Benjamin Rush -- Republican technology -- Torpedo war and submarine explosions / Robert Fulton -- A nation of inventors / Jacob Bigelow -- Newspapers -- Printing in America / Isaiah Thomas -- Painting and engraving -- The life of Benjamin West / John Galt -- Commemorating the Revolution / John Trumbull -- Theater -- Othello, American style / Playbill -- The morality of the stage -- Architecture -- The capitol of Virginia / Thomas Jefferson -- Travellers' comments / Duke de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Isaac Weld -- Republican art -- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts / Joseph Hopkinson -- Social mobility -- Modern chivalry / Hugh Henry Brackenridge -- The unsettling of the South -- Gabriel's insurrection -- Traveling in America -- Salmagundi / Washington Irving -- A national character -- Inchiquin's letters / Charles Jared Ingersoll.
ISBN
  • 0807606111
  • 9780807606117
  • 0807606103
  • 9780807606100
LCCN
75151798
OCLC
  • ocm00199726
  • 199726
  • SCSB-158238
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library