George Washington ReconsideredDon Higginbotham University of Virginia Press, 2001 - 336 páginas George Washington, heroic general of the Revolution, master of Mount Vernon, and first president of the United States, remains the most enigmatic figure of the founding generation, with historians and the public at large still arguing over the strengths of his character and the nature of his intellectual and political contributions to the early republic. Representing the finest recent scholarship on Washington, these thirteen essays by the leading scholars in the field strike a balance between Washington's personal life and character and his public life as a soldier and political figure. Editor Don Higginbotham provides an introduction about Washington and his treatment by historians, and an afterword devoted to how the American people have viewed Washington, including the 1999 commemorations of the bicentennial of his death. With three essays written specifically for this volume, George Washington Reconsidered is the first collection of its kind to be published in over thirty years. |
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... Slavery DOROTHY TWOHIG 114 The American Nationalist 6. George Washington and Revolutionary Asceticism : The Localist as Nationalist DON HIGGINBOTHAM 7. The Republican General GLENN A. PHELPS 141 165 8. George Washington , the West , and ...
... slaves , his hopes for the West , and his attitudes toward death and afterlife . The last topic seemed as relevant as any in 1999 , the year this tome took shape and the bicentennial of Washington's own death . At the same time ...
... Slavery too drew his serious attention , as Dorothy Twohig points out . If he failed to find a way to convert to white tenant labor and free his bondsmen during his lifetime , he manumitted his Africans in his will , making a personal ...
... slaves , and he requested that his secretary see to the final ordering and securing of his thousands of letters and other pa- pers . He even controlled his death , instructing his doctors to cease their heroic labors and to let him go ...
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III | 15 |
IV | 38 |
V | 67 |
VI | 94 |
VII | 114 |
VIII | 139 |
IX | 141 |
X | 165 |
XII | 212 |
XIII | 250 |
XIV | 273 |
XV | 275 |
XVI | 287 |
XVII | 309 |
XVIII | 325 |
XI | 198 |