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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Página ix
... ideas I had not fully absorbed at the time I wrote the book , I would now define the essence of modernizing thought as a com- mitment to bureaucratic rationality . ) At times , the book may somewhat overemphasize the war experience ...
... ideas I had not fully absorbed at the time I wrote the book , I would now define the essence of modernizing thought as a com- mitment to bureaucratic rationality . ) At times , the book may somewhat overemphasize the war experience ...
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... ideas to the emerging cultural and political estab- lishment that would lead the United States into the twentieth century . The institutional side of the intellectual developments described in the last chapters of The Inner Civil War ...
... ideas to the emerging cultural and political estab- lishment that would lead the United States into the twentieth century . The institutional side of the intellectual developments described in the last chapters of The Inner Civil War ...
Página xiv
... idea that his image of a processional America of diverse races and cultures remarkably anticipated- with a commitment to the liberation of working people of what- ever race from economic injustice . We desperately need an up- dated ...
... idea that his image of a processional America of diverse races and cultures remarkably anticipated- with a commitment to the liberation of working people of what- ever race from economic injustice . We desperately need an up- dated ...
Página xv
... long years had conse- quences for the history of ideas which were comparable to its well - known political and economic effects . I have limited myself to the Northern scene because most XV Preface to the First Edition.
... long years had conse- quences for the history of ideas which were comparable to its well - known political and economic effects . I have limited myself to the Northern scene because most XV Preface to the First Edition.
Página xvi
... ideas and a powerful urge to find meaning and coherence in their experience are able to tell us more about a crisis of values , with its inevitable confusion and ambivalence , than the many who avoid difficult issues and are content to ...
... ideas and a powerful urge to find meaning and coherence in their experience are able to tell us more about a crisis of values , with its inevitable confusion and ambivalence , than the many who avoid difficult issues and are content to ...
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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