Title Ambition, a history : from vice to virtue / William Casey King.

Publication Info.	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
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Description	1 online resource (viii, 248 pages : illustrations)
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-234) and index.
Contents	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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	United States -- Civilization -- To 1783.
	Ambition -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
	Ambition -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
	National characteristics, American -- History.
	Christianity and culture -- United States -- History.
	Social values -- United States -- History.
	Social change -- United States -- History.
	England -- Civilization.
	Ambition -- Social aspects -- England -- History.
	Christianity and culture -- England -- History.
	HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
	HISTORY -- Social History.
	Christianity and culture. (OCoLC)fst00859660
	Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
	National characteristics, American. (OCoLC)fst01033342
	Social change. (OCoLC)fst01122310
	Social values. (OCoLC)fst01123424
	England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	To 1783
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: King, Casey (William Casey). Ambition, a history. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013] 9780300182804 (DLC) 2012034912 (OCoLC)785865105
ISBN	0300189842 (electronic bk.)
	9780300189841 (electronic bk.)

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