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Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap and the American Revolution

By Russell M. Lawson

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
ISBN
100028171X, 9781000281712
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
385 kB (394259 bytes)
Series
Routledge Library Editions: America - Revolution & Civil War, 7
Pages
256\0
Time added
2022-11-26 14:44:16

Description

Originally published in 2011, this volume publishes the letters of Jeremy Belknap and Ebenezer Hazard. The letters encompassed twenty years, from 1779 to 1798, during a time when the United States was warring against England, establishing new governments, building a national identity, exploring the hinterland, and refining an American identity in prose and verse. The letters of Hazard and Belknap tell of an age when science and religion had not yet divorced due to irreconcilable differences, when the most profound philosophy nestled comfortably next to a childlike fascination with the remarkable. The two friends explored in their epistles the nature of love, death, and piety; the best way for humans to govern themselves; matters of religious and scientific truth and the best means to arrive at it; the methods and writing of history; human credulity; and the wonders of nature.

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