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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... Civil War experience . If The Inner Civil War was partly an outgrowth of an older historiography that made much of the ratiocinations of intellec- tual elites , it was also affected by some of the tendencies of the sixties that soon ...
... Civil War experience . If The Inner Civil War was partly an outgrowth of an older historiography that made much of the ratiocinations of intellec- tual elites , it was also affected by some of the tendencies of the sixties that soon ...
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... Civil War , this book is also a study of American intellectuals . The question that arises , and that the text does not satisfactorily answer , is how to justify the selection of this particular group of intellectuals for treatment and ...
... Civil War , this book is also a study of American intellectuals . The question that arises , and that the text does not satisfactorily answer , is how to justify the selection of this particular group of intellectuals for treatment and ...
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... 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 representatives of " New York intellect . " But the New England focus and ...
... 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 representatives of " New York intellect . " But the New England focus and ...
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... civil service reform and the struggle against urban machine politics signaled a conservative turn on the part of " the cultivated classes " of the Northeast , an affirmation of order and efficiency at the expense of the transcen- dent ...
... civil service reform and the struggle against urban machine politics signaled a conservative turn on the part of " the cultivated classes " of the Northeast , an affirmation of order and efficiency at the expense of the transcen- dent ...
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... Civil War - era Brahmins ( and others who were admitted on the basis of achievement and acculturation to their relatively open ranks ) used their access to the best higher education that the nation offered to acquire the requisite ...
... Civil War - era Brahmins ( and others who were admitted on the basis of achievement and acculturation to their relatively open ranks ) used their access to the best higher education that the nation offered to acquire the requisite ...
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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