American honor : the creation of the nation's ideals during the Revolutionary era / Craig Bruce Smit...
American honor : the creation of the nation's ideals during the Revolutionary era / Craig Bruce Smit...
American honor : the creation of the nation's ideals during the Revolutionary era / Craig Bruce Smith.
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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
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G 2018/2756
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English
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x, 367 pages ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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What are honor, virtue, and ethics and how did they influence the American revolution? -- The old world meets the new: colonial ethical ideals before the Revolution -- A shared identity: colonial colleges and the shaping of pre-revolutionary thought -- A matter of honor and a test of virtue: riots,...
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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
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North Carolina
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[2018]
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" ... In the early eighteenth century, ideals of honor and virtue were salient aspects of Revolutionary Americans' ideological break from Europe and shared by all ranks of society, from the powdered-wig "founders" to college students, women, and African Americans. Focusing his study primarily on the prominent Americans who came of age before and du...
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American honor : the creation of the nation's ideals during the Revolutionary era / Craig Bruce Smith.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/2756
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74VKVoo2bdoy
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ISBN
9781469638836 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1469638835 hardcover ; alkaline paper
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973.01
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991024168914202626
