Classifications:USA, c 1800 to c 1900, Diaries, letters & journals, History of the Americas, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Political leaders & leadership
Readership:Professional & Vocational Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Undergraduate
"Criticism"提供了现代诠释和分析的代表性作品,证实了杰斐逊的持续相关性。其中包括安妮特·戈登·里德(Annette Gordon Reed)、彼得·奥纳夫(Peter Onuf)和道格拉斯·l·威尔逊(Douglas L. Wilson)等人从多个学科角度进行的12项发人深省的评估。
还包括一份选定的参考书目。
The first book to include Thomas Jefferson’s writings and writings about him—from his era and ours.
This Norton Critical Edition seeks to give readers a full understanding of Thomas Jefferson’s importance to the intellectual development of the United States, particularly in political theory and scientific learning; of Jefferson’s role in the expansion of the territory and sovereignty of the United States; and of Jefferson’s controversial relation to slavery and race as key issues in American history.
The editor has selected Jefferson’s most important published texts—A Summary View of the Rights of British America, the Declaration of Independence, and Notes on the State of Virginia—along with An Appendix to the Notes on Virginia Relative to the Murder of Logan’s Family and his Message to Congress on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In addition, more than one hundred of Jefferson’s letters (1760–1826) have been judiciously selected from his rich body of correspondence, allowing readers to see Jefferson as a person as well as a public figure. All texts are accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations.
“Contexts” reprints contemporary documents that place Jefferson and his writings within the early American Republic, including works by Thomas Paine, John Adams, François-Jean de Beauvoir, and Luther Martin. Also included are diverse and early responses to Jefferson and his writings by, among others, John Quincy Adams, William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
"Criticism" provides representative works of modern interpretation and analysis that confirm Jefferson's continuing relevance. Included are twelve thought-provoking assessments from several disciplinary perspectives by, among others, Annette Gordon Reed, Peter Onuf, and Douglas L. Wilson.
A Selected Bibliography is also included.
作者简介
托马斯·杰斐逊(Thomas Jefferson)是美国第三任总统(1801-1809),《独立宣言》(Declaration of Independence, 1776)的主要起草人,也是推动美国共和理想的*具影响力的开国元勋之一。他设想美国是一个伟大“自由帝国”背后的力量,这个“自由帝国”将促进共和主义,并反对大英帝国的帝国主义。
Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States (1801-1809), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States. He envisioned America as the force behind a great "Empire of Liberty" that would promote republicanism and counter the imperialism of the British Empire.
韦恩·富兰克林(匹兹堡大学博士),康涅狄格大学教授兼英语系主任。他著有《James Fenimore Cooper: the Early Years: the first volume of James Fenimore Cooper: the New World of James Fenimore Cooper: the Discoverers,探险家,Settlers: the harder writer of Early America》(James Fenimore Cooper: the Early Years, the first volume of his权威传记,耶鲁大学出版社出版)、《James Fenimore Cooper的新世界》和《Discoverers,探险家,Settlers: the Discoverers,探险家,Settlers: the Diligent Writers of Early America》。他是《美国之声》、《美国生活:纪实读物》和《托马斯·杰斐逊作品选》(诺顿评论版)的编辑,并与迈克尔·斯tan纳(Michael Steiner)共同编辑了《测绘美国文化》。
Wayne Franklin (Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh) is Professor and Head of English, University of Connecticut. He is the author of James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years (the first volume of his definitive biography, from Yale University Press), The New World of James Fenimore Cooper, and Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers: The Diligent Writers of Early America. He is the editor of American Voices, American Lives: A Documentary Reader and The Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, A Norton Critical Edition, and co-editor, with Michael Steiner, of Mapping American Culture.tna
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