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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... 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 Civil War experience . The book has survived despite a veritable ...
... 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 Civil War experience . The book has survived despite a veritable ...
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... suggested by per- sonal letters revealing , for example , that Henry Lee Higginson returned from military service to steal the object of Francis Park- man's affections or that the young William James looked on en- viously as Charles ...
... suggested by per- sonal letters revealing , for example , that Henry Lee Higginson returned from military service to steal the object of Francis Park- man's affections or that the young William James looked on en- viously as Charles ...
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... 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 political estab- lishment that would lead the ...
... 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 political estab- lishment that would lead the ...
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... suggesting that Hawthorne had a typical ante - bellum mentality and that con- sequently his response to the war was characteristic of " that earlier and simpler generation . " The fact was that Hawthorne's reaction was unique ; he was ...
... suggesting that Hawthorne had a typical ante - bellum mentality and that con- sequently his response to the war was characteristic of " that earlier and simpler generation . " The fact was that Hawthorne's reaction was unique ; he was ...
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... suggesting that the war might not have all the good results that were being promised , Hawthorne wrote : " No human effort , on a grand scale , has ever yet resulted ac- cording to the purpose of its projectors . The advantages are ...
... suggesting that the war might not have all the good results that were being promised , Hawthorne wrote : " No human effort , on a grand scale , has ever yet resulted ac- cording to the purpose of its projectors . The advantages are ...
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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