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 vii
... writing of American history since its first appearance . In 1965 , the traditional focus on the 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 ...
... writing of American history since its first appearance . In 1965 , the traditional focus on the 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 ...
Página viii
... writing of American history . My own preoccupation with the cultural and political signifi- cance of racism was clearly beginning to emerge , especially in chapters 8 , 10 , and 12. Although the coverage of women's re- sponses seems ...
... writing of American history . My own preoccupation with the cultural and political signifi- cance of racism was clearly beginning to emerge , especially in chapters 8 , 10 , and 12. Although the coverage of women's re- sponses seems ...
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... writers and professional men who disparaged Emerson and the abolitionists and affirmed their conservative commitments to ... writing so much about the American mind or even the mind of the North , however , as about a further episode X ...
... writers and professional men who disparaged Emerson and the abolitionists and affirmed their conservative commitments to ... writing so much about the American mind or even the mind of the North , however , as about a further episode X ...
Página xi
... writing about a debate between Concord and Boston and showing how the Civil War contributed to Boston's triumph . My net was actu- ally cast wider than Boston and its suburbs ; it caught some Con- necticut Yankees and quite a few ...
... writing about a debate between Concord and Boston and showing how the Civil War contributed to Boston's triumph . My net was actu- ally cast wider than Boston and its suburbs ; it caught some Con- necticut Yankees and quite a few ...
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... writing and criticism gave rise to the " genteel tradition " that dominated American letters between the 1850s and 1890s . To a considerable extent , the Northern middle class as a whole looked to the Brahmin writers for its standards ...
... writing and criticism gave rise to the " genteel tradition " that dominated American letters between the 1850s and 1890s . To a considerable extent , the Northern middle class as a whole looked to the Brahmin writers for its standards ...
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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