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eper about the position of the dominant national power of the era? About the nature of our age? 3. A few days before Christmas of December of 1787, Thomas Jefferson sat down in Paris to write a letter to James Madison.*? Madison was on the other side of the Atlantic, in Philadelphia, and struggling with refinemen
and summer just passed. The two men were frequent correspondents. They wrote to each other with an easy familiarity, revolutionary to revolutionary. Jefferson was then 44, and had settled hungrily into his role as the American minister in France, “violently smitten,” as he wrote, by the charms of The Contin
ge; power moves. You can see leaders struggle with this constant shifting: Think of the “Englightened Despotism” of the 18 Century as Frederick II of Prussia, Joseph II of the Hapsburgs and Catherine IJ in St. Petersburg each struggled to marry the then-new ideas of liberty with older instincts of control.
to be that history was made in public: Big visible wars and social shifts and revolutions. Pericles in the Athenian square; the churning protests of Jefferson’s Paris or the massing of armies. Now, however, subtle manipulations of technology, invisible to most of us and maybe even accidental, maybe weird, w
s it may have seemed in theory or drills or in midnight massacres in the African bush, some steam-press built for cold rolling the armies Belgium and Prussia and France. In fact, the weapons encouraged battle as they piled endlessly in national arsenals. They tickled fears of fast or surprise attack, even
s Mohamed Husnee Jazeel Alain Jeannet Richard A. Jefferson Kevin J. Jenkins Philip J. Jennings Jeong Kim Je
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