Ambition, a history : from vice to virtue /

Is "ambitious" a compliment' It depends: "[A] masterpiece of intellectual and cultural history."'David Brion Davis, author of Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World From rags to riches, log house to White House, enslaved to liberator, ghetto to C...

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Bibliografski detalji
Glavni autor: King, Casey (William Casey) (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Online pristup:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=518266
Sadržaj:
  • From vice to Christian sin
  • Ambition as sin in early modern English culture : Perilous acts of self-elevation, Subversive acts of self-negation
  • The plague and countervailing passions
  • Harnessing ambition in the age of exploration
  • Epilogue.