Peter Thompson (Associate Professor Associate Professor of History

Gebundenes Buch

Heir through Hope

Thomas Jefferson's Lifelong Investment in William Short

Beschreibung

Over forty years Thomas Jefferson and William Short forged a deep and intense relationship that both characterized in paternal and filial terms. Heir through Hope examines this relationship and its impact on Jefferson's moral and political judgments--on revolutionary violence, the economics of slavery, the value of marriage--central to his wider thought.

Autor

Peter Thompson is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Rum Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 165mm x 243mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9780197546833
• ISBN-10: 0197546838
• Artikelnr.: 67863288