Beyond the farm national ambitions in rural New England /

During the first half-century of American independence, a fundamental change in the meaning and morality of ambition emerged in American culture. Long stigmatized as a dangerous passion that led people to pursue fame at the expense of duty, ambition also raised concerns among American Revolutionarie...

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Main Author: Opal, J. M.
Format: Electronic Online Resource eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.
Series:Early American Studies
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Online Access:Ebook Central Academic Complete
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