Books written by Peter S. Onuf

The Origins of the Federal Republic: Jurisdictional Controversies in the United States, 1775-1787

Jurisdictional Controversies in the United States, 1775-1787 Peter S. Onuf ... James Finley told westerners, on a propaganda mission in early 1783, that "the Right of Pennsylvania to all the Lands within her Charter Boundaries" was ...
All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions

Calling into question widely held notions about how Americans came to differ from one another and explaining why those differences continue to flourish, this iconoclastic study—by scholars with differing regional ties—will refresh and ...
Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War

Thomas Cooper, a free trade economist from cotton- exporting South Carolina, provided a better target for List, if only because he took the school's position "to extremes." According to List, Cooper "denies ...
Federal Union, Modern World: The Law of Nations in an Age of Revolutions, 1776-1814

... 1 , 12 , citing Aristotle ; Franciscus de Victoria , De jure belli , 425 , in De Indis et de jure belli relectiones [ 1557 ] , trans , by John Pawley Bate , rev . text by Herbert Francis Wright ( Washington , 1917 ) , 169 ( trans . ) ...
The Mind of Thomas Jefferson

In The Mind of Thomas Jefferson, one of the foremost historians of Jefferson and his time, Peter S. Onuf, offers a collection of essays that seeks to historicize one of our nation’s founding fathers.
Declaring Independence: The Origin and Influence of America's Founding Document : Featuring the Albert H. Small Declaration of Independence Collection

"This volume asks us to reread and rethink our founding document.
The Midwest and the Nation: Rethinking the History of an American Region

Theirs is a fine blending of the old and the new: old scholarship and new directions." —Malcolm J. Rohrbough "This is an ambitious work that... truly beongs on the 'must do' reading list of all midwestern and American historians." ...
The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race, and the New Republic

Democracy, Race, and the New Republic James J. Horn, Jan Ellen Lewis, Peter S. Onuf ... Okla . , 1975 ) , 93-102 ; and William G. McLoughlin , Cherokee Renascence and the New Republic ( Princeton , N.J. , 1987 ) , 140-41 .
Thomas Jefferson, the Classical World, and Early America

This volume brings together historians of political thought with classicists and historians of art and culture to find new approaches to the difficult questions raised by America's classical heritage.
State and Citizen: British America and the Early United States

Thomas,The Confederate Nation,260; Bensel, Yankee Leviathan, 130. 23.Beringer,Why the SouthLost, 214–18; Thomas,The Confederate Nation, 207; Bensel, Yankee Leviathan,137–80; Curtis Arthur Amlund, Federalismin the Southern Confederacy ...
Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World

" The essays in Empire and Nation challenge facile assumptions about the "exceptional" character of the republic's founding moment, even as they invite readers to think anew about the complex ways in which the Revolution reshaped both ...
Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of America

The essays collected here look at the global geopolitics that provided the context for the expedition.
Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World

... “Rural Politics and the Collapse of Pennsylvania Federalism,” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 72 (1982), part 6; A. G. Roeber, Faithful Magistrates and Republican Lawyers: Creators of Virginia Legal Culture, ...
Revolutionary Prophecies: The Founders and America’s Future

Also useful is Hogeland, The Whiskey Rebellion. Anthony Wayne to Henry Knox, March 10, 1794, RP, box 6, folder 5. On Harmar's and St. Clair's defeats and other Indian successes between 1789 and 1794, see Slaughter, Whiskey Rebellion, ...
Paine and Jefferson in the Age of Revolutions

In Paine and Jefferson in the Age of Revolutions, editors Simon Newman and Peter Onuf present a collection of essays that examine how the reputations of two figures whose outlooks were so similar have had such different trajectories.
Sally Hemings & Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture

The editors of this volume have assembled some of the most distinguished American historians, including three Pulitzer Prize winners, and other experts on Jefferson, his times, race, and slavery.
"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

New York Times Bestseller Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle Finalist for the George Washington Prize Finalist for the Library of Virginia Literary Award A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice ...
Old World, New World: America and Europe in the Age of Jefferson

Vile,Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments,and Amending Issues, 1789–2002 (Santa Barbara, CA, 2003), 454– 55. Only W.H. Earle, in “The Phantom Amendment and the Duchess of Baltimore,”33, solidly identifies ...
The Mind of Thomas Jefferson

In The Mind of Thomas Jefferson, one of the foremost historians of Jefferson and his time, Peter S. Onuf, offers a collection of essays that seeks to historicize one of our nation’s founding fathers.
Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood

Peter S. Onuf's new book traces Jefferson's vision of theAmerican future to its roots in his idealized notions of nationhood and empire.Onuf's unsettling recognition that Jefferson's famed egalitarianism was elaboratedin an imperial context ...