American honor : the creation of the nation's ideals during the Revolutionary era /
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 primaril...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- 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, boycotts, and resistance during the coming of the Revolution
- Maintaining moral superiority: how ethics defined the early war years
- From tension to victory: overcoming civilian and martial differences on honor and virtue during the later war years
- Expanding ethics: the democratization of honor and virtue in the new republic
- The counterrevolution in American ethics: reinterpretations of the next generations
- March 16, 1824.