Inventing America : Jefferson's declaration of independence

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Inventing America : Jefferson's declaration of independence

Wills, Garry (Pengarang)

Sejarah Amerika

Detil Buku

Edisi Cetakan Ketiga

Penerbit New York : Vintage Books, 2018

Deskripsi Fisik 402 halaman ; 20,5 cm

ISBN 9780525435976

Subjek Sejarah Amerika

Bahasa Inggris

Call Number 973 WIL i

Deskripsi

Inventing America upended decades of thinking about The Declaration of Independence when it was first published in 1978 and remains one of the most influential and important works of scholarship about this founding document. Wills challenged the idea that Jefferson took all his ideas from John Locke. Instead, by focussing on Jefferson’s original drafts, he showed Jefferson’s debt to Scottish Enlightenment philosophers such as Lord Kames and Francis Hutcheson, and even the metaphysics of Aristotle. Wills’s close reading of the previously overlooked drafts of the Declaration have altered and deepened the meaning and consequences of the single most important document that contintues to define America.