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  1. Black Cosmopolitans : Race, Religion, and Republicanism in an Age of Revolution
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville

    "Black Cosmopolitans examines the lives and thought of three extraordinary black men—Jacobus Capitein, Jean-Baptiste Belley, and John Marrant—who traveled extensively throughout the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Unlike millions of uprooted... more

     

    "Black Cosmopolitans examines the lives and thought of three extraordinary black men—Jacobus Capitein, Jean-Baptiste Belley, and John Marrant—who traveled extensively throughout the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Unlike millions of uprooted Africans and their descendants at the time, these men did not live lives of toil and sweat in the plantations of the New World. Marrant was born free, while Capitein and Belley became free when young, and this freedom gave them not only mobility but also the chance to make significant contributions to print culture. As public intellectuals, Capitein, Belley, and Marrant developed a cosmopolitan vision of the world anchored in the republican ideals of civic virtue and communal life, and so helped radicalize the calls for freedom that were emerging from the Enlightenment.

    Relying on sources in English, French, and Dutch, Christine Levecq shows that Calvinism, the French Revolution, and freemasonry were major inspirations for this republicanism. By exploring these cosmopolitan men’s connections to their black communities, she argues that the eighteenth-century Atlantic world fostered an elite of black thinkers who took advantage of surrounding ideologies to spread a message of universal inclusion and egalitarianism."

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Literature & literary studies
    Other subjects: calvinism; French revolution; Atlantic history; slave trade; republicanism
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (304 p.)
  2. Works of John Dryden
    18, The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVIII ; Prose: The History of the League, 1684
    Author: Dryden, John
    Published: [1975]; ©1975
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    This volume contains Dryden's 1684 translation of Louis Maimbourg's "The History of the League," a work relating to the religious wars of France in the preceding century, and which Dryden used as a commentary on the religious persecutions of his own... more

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    This volume contains Dryden's 1684 translation of Louis Maimbourg's "The History of the League," a work relating to the religious wars of France in the preceding century, and which Dryden used as a commentary on the religious persecutions of his own time in England

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Dearing, Vinton A. (HerausgeberIn); Roper, Alan (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780520905313
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    Series: Works of John Dryden ; 18
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
    Other subjects: 17th century; british history; british monarchy; calvinism; catholic; discrimination; france; french history; history of the league; huguenots; justice; king; louis maimbourg; mercy; peace; political writing; politics; prejudice; protestant; rebellion; religion; religious freedom; religious persecution; restoration england; restoration; war
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (588 p.)