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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... thought and action of elite white males had not yet been challenged by a " new social history " that shifted the angle of vision from elites to ordinary people , includ- ing women and minorities . In certain obvious ways , The Inner ...
... thought and action of elite white males had not yet been challenged by a " new social history " that shifted the angle of vision from elites to ordinary people , includ- ing women and minorities . In certain obvious ways , The Inner ...
Página viii
... thought and behavior has important consequences for the lives of plain folk . If social history is regarded as the history of social classes or status groups , The Inner Civil War has implications for this field of study . It focuses on ...
... thought and behavior has important consequences for the lives of plain folk . If social history is regarded as the history of social classes or status groups , The Inner Civil War has implications for this field of study . It focuses on ...
Página ix
... thought and opinion of the post - war years . ( Following Max Weber , whose 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 ...
... thought and opinion of the post - war years . ( Following Max Weber , whose 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 ...
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... thought , for the simple reason that I found them saying interesting and revealing things about the meaning of the crisis , playing important roles in organizing and motivating the Northern war effort , or applying the lessons of the ...
... thought , for the simple reason that I found them saying interesting and revealing things about the meaning of the crisis , playing important roles in organizing and motivating the Northern war effort , or applying the lessons of the ...
Página xv
... thought and values which took place during the war . I have come to the con- clusion that the collective trauma which polarized the nation's energies , thoughts , and emotions for four long years had conse- quences for the history of ...
... thought and values which took place during the war . I have come to the con- clusion that the collective trauma which polarized the nation's energies , thoughts , and emotions for four long years had conse- quences for the history of ...
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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