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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| Hōputu: | Licensed eBooks |
| Reo: | Ingarihi |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2013]
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| Urunga tuihono: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=518266 |
Rārangi ihirangi:
- 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.