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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... North . The continued historiographic rele- vance of this book is suggested by the fact that Phillip Paludan cites it several times in A People's Contest ( 1988 ) , the volume in the New American Nation Series that sums up the North's ...
... North . The continued historiographic rele- vance of this book is suggested by the fact that Phillip Paludan cites it several times in A People's Contest ( 1988 ) , the volume in the New American Nation Series that sums up the North's ...
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... in a position . to exert cultural authority during the Gilded Age . I was not writing so much about the American mind or even the mind of the North , however , as about a further episode X PREFACE TO THE 1993 EDITION.
... in a position . to exert cultural authority during the Gilded Age . I was not writing so much about the American mind or even the mind of the North , however , as about a further episode X PREFACE TO THE 1993 EDITION.
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Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union George M. Fredrickson. the North , however , as about a further episode in the history of the New England mind that Perry Miller had begun . In terms of local geography , it might almost ...
Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union George M. Fredrickson. the North , however , as about a further episode in the history of the New England mind that Perry Miller had begun . In terms of local geography , it might almost ...
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... North won the war and shaped the values of the postwar era . I have chosen to center on a relatively few individuals rather than constantly and systematically sampling a very wide range of Northern opinion because of some basic ...
... North won the war and shaped the values of the postwar era . I have chosen to center on a relatively few individuals rather than constantly and systematically sampling a very wide range of Northern opinion because of some basic ...
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... North and South seeking different ob- jectives , but even within the North there was more than one version of what the conflict was all about . Of the many voices , " All are thoroughly in earnest , and all pray for the blessings of ...
... North and South seeking different ob- jectives , but even within the North there was more than one version of what the conflict was all about . Of the many voices , " All are thoroughly in earnest , and all pray for the blessings of ...
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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