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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... Roles and Rehearsals : The 1850s 1 Prophets of Perfection 2 Conservatives in a Radical Age The Impending Crisis Part II The War as Idea and Experience , 1860-65 7 23 36 4 Secession , Rebellion , and Ideology 5 The Spirit of '61 3333 53 ...
... Roles and Rehearsals : The 1850s 1 Prophets of Perfection 2 Conservatives in a Radical Age The Impending Crisis Part II The War as Idea and Experience , 1860-65 7 23 36 4 Secession , Rebellion , and Ideology 5 The Spirit of '61 3333 53 ...
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... role into a self- confident modernizing elite . My insight into this process has influenced the work of such subsequent historians and social sci- entists as Peter Dobkin Hall and Stephen Skowronek . ( See Hall's Organization of ...
... role into a self- confident modernizing elite . My insight into this process has influenced the work of such subsequent historians and social sci- entists as Peter Dobkin Hall and Stephen Skowronek . ( See Hall's Organization of ...
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... roles in organizing and motivating the Northern war effort , or applying the lessons of the war to the problems of post - war America . But I clearly had not reflected enough on who precisely was doing the thinking I was analyzing and ...
... roles in organizing and motivating the Northern war effort , or applying the lessons of the war to the problems of post - war America . But I clearly had not reflected enough on who precisely was doing the thinking I was analyzing and ...
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... role . The book , therefore , is not really so much about a few deep thinkers or unusually sensitive souls who under- stood what everyone else missed about the meaning of the war as about how the representatives of an educated elite ...
... role . The book , therefore , is not really so much about a few deep thinkers or unusually sensitive souls who under- stood what everyone else missed about the meaning of the war as about how the representatives of an educated elite ...
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... role in creating that world , for its democracy was premised on racism , and its individualist radicalism was in part the protest of a New England elite against the unholy alliance of mass politics and black subjugation that sustained ...
... role in creating that world , for its democracy was premised on racism , and its individualist radicalism was in part the protest of a New England elite against the unholy alliance of mass politics and black subjugation that sustained ...
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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