Thomas Jefferson, Time, and History (Jeffersonian America) by Spahn, Hannah

University of Virginia Press, 2011-12-06. hardcover. Like New. 6x1x9. Unmarked hardcover in unclipped jacket.

University of Virginia Press, 2011-12-05. hardcover. Like New. 6x1x9. ships same or next day with tracking

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Hardback. New. Beginning with the famous opening to the Declaration of Independence ("When in the course of human events..."), almost all of Thomas Jefferson's writings include creative, stylistically and philosophically complex references to time and history. Although best known for his "forward-looking" statements envisioning future progress, Jefferson was in fact deeply concerned with the problem of coming to terms with the impending loss or fragmentation of the past. As Hannah Spahn shows in Thomas Jefferson, Time, and History, his efforts to promote an exceptionalist interpretation of the United States as the first nation to escape from the "crimes and calamities" of European history were complicated both by his doubts about the outcome of the American experiment and by his skepticism about the methods and morals of eighteenth-century philosophical history. Spahn approaches the conundrum of Jefferson's Janus-faced, equally forward-… Read More

Univ of Virginia Pr, 2011. Hardcover. New. 290 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches.

Univ of Virginia Pr, 2011. Hardcover. New. 290 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches.