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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... give us insights into the larger process of cultural transformation described above . Today , I find myself slightly embarrassed by the rather glib assertion in the original preface that " the few who have a genuine interest in ideas ...
... give us insights into the larger process of cultural transformation described above . Today , I find myself slightly embarrassed by the rather glib assertion in the original preface that " the few who have a genuine interest in ideas ...
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... gives some sense of a larger America . In sociological terms , however , I was principally writing about the most articulate segment of the old Northeastern upper class , an elite that had its economic basis in the mercantile wealth of ...
... gives some sense of a larger America . In sociological terms , however , I was principally writing about the most articulate segment of the old Northeastern upper class , an elite that had its economic basis in the mercantile wealth of ...
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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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