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...

Celý popis

Podrobná bibliografie
Hlavní autor: King, Casey (William Casey) (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
On-line přístup:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=518266
Obsah:
  • 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.