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Gummere, Richard M.

The American Colonial Mind and the Classical Tradition : Essays in Comparative Culture / Richard M. Gummere. - Reprint 2014 - 1 online resource (228 p.)

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- I THE CLASSICAL BACKGROUND OF THE COLONIAL MIND -- II THE VIRGINIA ARGONAUTS -- III NOVANGLIA: CHURCH, STATE, AND THE CLASSICS -- IV COLONIAL REACTIONS TO A CLASSICAL EDUCATION -- V WILLIAM BYRD AND SAMUEL SEWALL: TWO DIARISTS IN THE ANCIENT TRADITION -- VI COLONIES, ANCIENT AND MODERN -- VII LOGAN, FRANKLIN, BARTRAM: HUMANIST, PRAGMATIST, PLATONIST -- VIII THE TRANSATLANTIC MUSE -- IX JONATHAN BOUCHER, TORYISSIMUS -- Χ THE CLASSICAL ANCESTRY OF THE CONSTITUTION -- XI EPILOGUE: ADAMS AND JEFFERSON -- REFERENCE MATTER -- INDEX

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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9780674284524 9780674284531

Standard No.: 10.4159/harvard.9780674284531 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Civilization.
Geografie, Reisen.
Kolonisation.
United States -- Civilization -- Classical influences.
United States -- Civilization -- To 1783.
HISTORY / United States / General.

LC Class. No.: E162 / .G88

Dewey Class. No.: 917.3