The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the UnionUniversity of Illinois Press, 1965 - 277 páginas 'The Inner Civil War', first published more than twenty-five years ago, is a classic that has influenced historians' views of the Civil War and American intellectual change in the nineteenth century. This edition includes a new preface in which the author demonstrates the continuing relevance of the work and updates its interpretations. |
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... Boston , and others had strong ties to the Brahmin social and intellectual elite . I may have followed Elkins a bit too closely in giving clear ascendency to the anti - institutionalists as late as the 1850s , but the debate between ...
... Boston , and others had strong ties to the Brahmin social and intellectual elite . I may have followed Elkins a bit too closely in giving clear ascendency to the anti - institutionalists as late as the 1850s , but the debate between ...
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... Boston and showing how the Civil War contributed to Boston's triumph . My net was actu- ally cast wider than Boston and its suburbs ; it caught some Con- necticut Yankees and quite a few representatives of " New York intellect . " But ...
... Boston and showing how the Civil War contributed to Boston's triumph . My net was actu- ally cast wider than Boston and its suburbs ; it caught some Con- necticut Yankees and quite a few representatives of " New York intellect . " But ...
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... Boston of rising merchant families with other families known not for their worldly success but for their long lines of clergymen and Harvard graduates . This union of new wealth and old learning gave rise to the Brahmins of New England ...
... Boston of rising merchant families with other families known not for their worldly success but for their long lines of clergymen and Harvard graduates . This union of new wealth and old learning gave rise to the Brahmins of New England ...
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Contenido
Prophets of Perfection | 7 |
Conservatives in a Radical Age | 23 |
The Impending Crisis | 36 |
The War as Idea and Experience 18601865 | 51 |
Secession Rebellion and Ideology | 53 |
The Spirit of 61 | 65 |
This Cruel War The Individual Response to Suffering | 79 |
The Sanitary Elite The Organized Response to Suffering | 98 |
The Martyr and His Friends | 151 |
The Strenuous Life | 166 |
The Legacy | 181 |
The Twilight of Humanitarianism | 183 |
Science and the New Intellectuals | 199 |
The Moral Equivalent of War | 217 |
Notes | 239 |
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The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union George M. Fredrickson Sin vista previa disponible - 1965 |
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