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John Witherspoon's American Revolution / Gideon Mailer.

Author/creator Mailer, Gideon
Other author/creatorOmohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Descriptionviii, 425 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content Full text available from JSTOR eBooks
Subject(s)
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.
General note"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016024829
ISBN9781469628189 (cloth : alk. paper)

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