Thomas Jefferson and American Nationhood

by Brian Douglas Steele and Brian Steele

Book Overview

This book emphasises the centrality of nationhood to Thomas Jefferson's thought and politics, envisioning Jefferson as a cultural nationalist whose political project sought the alignment of the American state system with the will and character of the nation. Jefferson believed that America was the one nation on earth able to realise in practice universal ideals to which other peoples could only aspire. He appears in the book as the essential narrator...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107635748
• ISBN13: 9781107635746
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"