The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the UnionUniversity of Illinois Press, 1965 - 277 strani '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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... American Nation Series that sums up the North's Civil War experience . The book has survived despite a veritable revolution in the writing of American history since its first appearance . In 1965 , the traditional focus on the thought ...
... American Nation Series that sums up the North's Civil War experience . The book has survived despite a veritable revolution in the writing of American history since its first appearance . In 1965 , the traditional focus on the thought ...
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... American history . My own preoccupation with the cultural and political signifi- cance of racism was clearly ... American Culture and Skowronek's Building a New American State , both of which appeared in 1982 ) . As a book about the ...
... American history . My own preoccupation with the cultural and political signifi- cance of racism was clearly ... American Culture and Skowronek's Building a New American State , both of which appeared in 1982 ) . As a book about the ...
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... American ideas and values came to seem dysfunctional as the Union embarked on what Allan Nevins called " the organized war " ( The War for the Union , 4 vols . , 1959-71 ) . Scientism , " realism , " organiza- tionalism , and a ...
... American ideas and values came to seem dysfunctional as the Union embarked on what Allan Nevins called " the organized war " ( The War for the Union , 4 vols . , 1959-71 ) . Scientism , " realism , " organiza- tionalism , and a ...
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... American mind . In practice , I included some intellectuals ( such as the Reverend Henry W. Bellows and Josephine Shaw Lowell ) who were not at the time I wrote consid- ered significant contributors to American thought , for the simple ...
... American mind . In practice , I included some intellectuals ( such as the Reverend Henry W. Bellows and Josephine Shaw Lowell ) who were not at the time I wrote consid- ered significant contributors to American thought , for the simple ...
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... American culture , but from the Age of Jackson to the present , populist egalitarianism and the high - minded pursuit of justice for minorities have been in conflict more often than they have coincided . Hence the importance of Wendell ...
... American culture , but from the Age of Jackson to the present , populist egalitarianism and the high - minded pursuit of justice for minorities have been in conflict more often than they have coincided . Hence the importance of Wendell ...
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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 Predogled ni na voljo - 1965 |
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