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One of the finest historians of her generation, Jan Ellen Lewis transformed our understanding of the early U.S. Republic. Her groundbreaking essays defined the emerging fields of gender and emotions history and reframed traditional understandings of the founding fathers and the U.S. Constitution. As significant as her work was within each of these subfields, her most remarkable insights came from the connections she drew among them. Gender and race, slavery and freedom, feelings and politics ran together in the hearts, minds, and lives of the men and women she studied. Lewis's brilliant research revealed these long-buried connections and illuminated their importance for America's past and present. Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic collects thirteen of Lewis's most important essays. Distinguished scholars shed light on the historical and historiographical contexts in which Lewis and her peers researched, wrote, and argued. But the real star of this volume is Lewis herself: confident, unconventional, erudite, and deeply imaginative.

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Author:   Jan Ellen Lewis ,  Barry Bienstock ,  Annette Gordon-Reed ,  Peter Onuf
Publisher:   The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint:   The University of North Carolina Press
Dimensions:   Width: 20.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.868kg
ISBN:  

9781469665634

ISBN 10:   1469665638
Pages:   440
Publication Date:   30 October 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"The affection and admiration felt toward Lewis emanate from every contributor. . . It is a fitting tribute to Lewis's scholarship and will also be of use to those interested in the history of the Early American Republic and how investigations of race, gender, and emotions provided insight into politics, the constitution, and Thomas Jefferson himself.""--The Middle Ground Journal This volume amply demonstrates the power of Lewis's careful readings of texts, nuanced, interpretations, and meticulously constructed arguments. Seeing the full span of Lewis's work and the way she often began pulling on threads that later scholars continued to unravel made me wish for an entire second volume exploring her legacy in these fields. Her influence will continue both through her published works and the many, many publications of scholars who build upon them.""--Journal of Southern History"

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Jan Ellen Lewis (1949-2018) was professor of history at Rutgers-Newark University, where she also served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The author of multiple books and articles on gender, race, and politics in the early republic, she served as the 36th president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.

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