Landon Carter: An Inquiry Into the Personal Values and Social Imperatives of the Eighteenth-Century Virginia Gentry - Softcover

Greene, Jack P.

 
9780813901114: Landon Carter: An Inquiry Into the Personal Values and Social Imperatives of the Eighteenth-Century Virginia Gentry

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A psychological and intellectual portrait of Landon Carter, the wealthy 18th century diarist and master of Sabine Hall, this study attempts to delineate his central character traits and personal values, while also placing him in the context of the social imperatives of the Virginia gentry of his day.

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Jack P. Greene is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University. He has published extensively, and his books include Peripheries and Center: Constitutional Development in the Extended Polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607-1783; and Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of the Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture.

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