Peter Thompson (Associate Professor Associate Professor of History

Heir through Hope

Thomas Jefferson's Lifelong Investment in William Short

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* A Note on Translation and Nomenclature
* Introduction: An Unfulfilled Patriarch
* Chapter 1: Springs Set in Motion: Establishing Separate Lives in
France
* Chapter 2: Living in a Woman's Country: Jefferson and Short's
Reflections on French Culture
* Chapter 3: "A Poor Dry Business": William Short's Diplomatic Career
* Chapter 4: The Earth Half Desolated: Reckoning with Terror
* Chapter 5: "You are my husband": Rosalie de La Rochefoucauld and
William Short
* Chapter 6: Money, Slaves, and Land: Jefferson's Ties to William Short
* Chapter 7: A Serpent's Tooth: William Short's Later Life Relationship
with Jefferson
* Epilogue: Jefferson's Hopes, and Short's Fears
* Notes
* Index