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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... society . But from Miller's magisterial work The New England Mind : From Colony to Province ( 1953 ) , I also learned that sophisticated thought does not exist in a vacuum but constitutes a response to historical change . Just as ...
... society . But from Miller's magisterial work The New England Mind : From Colony to Province ( 1953 ) , I also learned that sophisticated thought does not exist in a vacuum but constitutes a response to historical change . Just as ...
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... society , the radical individualism that I found to be the dominant ante - bellum intellectual style succumbed to the resurgent institutionalism or organizationalism encouraged by the Civil War experience . If The Inner Civil War was ...
... society , the radical individualism that I found to be the dominant ante - bellum intellectual style succumbed to the resurgent institutionalism or organizationalism encouraged by the Civil War experience . If The Inner Civil War was ...
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... society as " anti- institutionalist " and his perception that they shared this radical individualism with the Garrisonian abolitionists . My research , however , uncovered a number of significant pre - war dissenters from anti ...
... society as " anti- institutionalist " and his perception that they shared this radical individualism with the Garrisonian abolitionists . My research , however , uncovered a number of significant pre - war dissenters from anti ...
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... society of the early republic . As the book suggests , and as Peter Dobkin Hall and Stephen Skowronek have argued more explicitly , they actually contributed much of the personnel and many of the ideas to the emerging cultural and ...
... society of the early republic . As the book suggests , and as Peter Dobkin Hall and Stephen Skowronek have argued more explicitly , they actually contributed much of the personnel and many of the ideas to the emerging cultural and ...
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... Society , the Yale University Library , the New - York Historical Society , and the New York Public Library for their assistance in my research . My greatest obligation is to Professor Donald Fleming , who encouraged me to undertake the ...
... Society , the Yale University Library , the New - York Historical Society , and the New York Public Library for their assistance in my research . My greatest obligation is to Professor Donald Fleming , who encouraged me to undertake the ...
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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